{"id":7053,"date":"2026-03-15T09:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=7053"},"modified":"2026-03-15T09:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:54:17","slug":"825-against-the-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/825-against-the-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"825 | AGAINST THE TIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7054 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rauf-Janlbekov-mer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rauf-Janlbekov-mer.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Rauf-Janlbekov-mer-200x123.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/>Painting by Rauf Janlbekov, Azerbaijan <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AGAINST THE TIDE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Poetry<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">seeks its path<br \/>\nagainst the tide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It cannot change the path of man<br \/>\nwhose future is uncertain and distant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But sometimes it can be lifebuoy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">for those who are in danger of drowning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Germain Droogenbroodt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>from \u201c<\/em><strong><em>Fragile Balance<\/em><\/strong><em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Translation by the author and Stanley Barkan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting by Rauf Janlbekov, Azerbaijan \u00a0 \u00a0 AGAINST THE TIDE \u00a0 Poetry seeks its path against the tide. It cannot change the path of man whose future is uncertain and distant. But sometimes it can be lifebuoy for those who are in danger of drowning. \u00a0 Germain Droogenbroodt from \u201cFragile Balance\u201d Translation by the author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7054,"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\/7053"}],"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=7053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7062,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions\/7062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}