{"id":243,"date":"2006-08-20T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2006-08-20T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T07:33:00","slug":"wounds-to-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wounds-to-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Wounds to the Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4187\/1128\/1600\/madani.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4187\/1128\/320\/madani.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><br \/>Rachida Madani is a Moroccon poet &#038; novelist, born 1951 in Tangiers where she still lives.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a poem from <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Blessures au vent<\/span> (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Wounds to the Wind<\/span>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You did not come into the world<br \/>to see your bones bleach<br \/>in the white waters<br \/>of a Bou-Regreg<br \/>nor to contemplate your shadow diminishing<br \/>on the roads of distress.<br \/>Set yourself aflame at my voice, brother<br \/>I have the happy privilege<br \/>to sow the lightning storm.<br \/>Stand up and scream your night<br \/>if you dare<br \/>lift it above your shaky head<br \/>and throw it on the ground<br \/>if you dare<br \/>night breaks like glass!<br \/>then let your kif talk<br \/>you own the bouquet of prophecy<br \/>when you sing the catastrophes\u2026<br \/>Stand up brother<br \/>each supine sun<br \/>is a dead man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(translated by Pierre Joris)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachida Madani is a Moroccon poet &#038; novelist, born 1951 in Tangiers where she still lives. Here is a poem from Blessures au vent (Wounds to the Wind): You did not come into the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}