{"id":6816,"date":"2025-06-11T14:45:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=6816"},"modified":"2025-08-29T08:30:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:30:47","slug":"808-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/808-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"808 | THE JOB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6817 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Luis-Pla-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Luis-Pla-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Luis-Pla-200x181.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Luis-Pla.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Painting by Luis Pla<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Job<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I write to feel in my veins<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">the flight of the stone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The anticipation of peace<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in this country of grenades<br \/>\nmoulded<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in the silence of fruit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I write like someone who digs<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">in the center of the shadow<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a sea of clarity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Living stones of possibility,<br \/>\nthe words raise<br \/>\nthe crime, the swamp birds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I write<br \/>\nin the great dark space<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">that we are and inundates us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Casimiro de Brito<\/strong><em>, <\/em><em>Portugal 1938\u20132024<br \/>\n<\/em><em><br \/>\nfrom \u201cJardins de Guerra\u201d, Portug\u00e1lia Editora<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Translation Germain Droogenbroodt \u2013 Stanley Barkan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Painting by Luis Pla The Job &nbsp; I write to feel in my veins the flight of the stone. The anticipation of peace in this country of grenades moulded in the silence of fruit. I write like someone who digs in the center of the shadow a sea of clarity. Living stones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816"}],"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=6816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6876,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816\/revisions\/6876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}