{"id":6555,"date":"2024-09-11T12:45:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T13:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=6555"},"modified":"2024-12-13T08:58:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T09:58:59","slug":"791-banpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/791-banpo\/","title":{"rendered":"791 | BANPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6556 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Ohara-Koson-800x600-1-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Ohara-Koson-800x600-1-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Ohara-Koson-800x600-1-200x299.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Ohara-Koson-800x600-1.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Songbird and Lotus, Peinture de Ohara Koson, Japan 1877-1945<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Banpo *<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There are clouds in the water<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and coriander leaves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And, as in the summers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">of my childhood,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">the air smells of soot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Under its slow vault,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">roses and trees of life,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a transparent<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">geometric center,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and their color touches me,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">more than in life,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">with my breath.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I breathe in the lotus<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">of snowy red lava,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and I know that one day<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">several centuries ago<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I was,<br \/>\nand I will be here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jaime Siles<\/strong>, Spain<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Translation Germain Droogenbroodt \u2013 Stanley Barkan<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>from: <\/em>&#8220;<strong><em>Pasos en la nieve<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;, (Tusquets, Barcelona, 2004).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* Banpo, archaeological place in China<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Songbird and Lotus, Peinture de Ohara Koson, Japan 1877-1945 \u00a0 Banpo * &nbsp; There are clouds in the water and coriander leaves. And, as in the summers of my childhood, the air smells of soot. Under its slow vault, roses and trees of life, a transparent geometric center, and their color touches me, more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6638,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions\/6638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}