{"id":4130,"date":"2010-07-13T08:11:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T13:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=4130"},"modified":"2010-07-13T08:11:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T13:11:47","slug":"water-rather-than-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/water-rather-than-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Water, Rather than Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4149 lazyload\" title=\"gunnar-ekelof\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gunnar-ekelof.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 202px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 202\/300;\" \/>Came across this little poem by <strong>Gunnar Ekel\u00f6f<\/strong> in a translation by <strong>Steven Fowler<\/strong> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nthposition.com\/amiracleworkingicon.php\">Nthposition<\/a> site which is introduced as &#8220;a monthly article series with www.Nthposition.com focused on European poets perhaps overlooked in the Anglo-American tradition.&#8221; Besides a good intro essay on Ekel\u00f6f, it also features three new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nthposition.com\/threenewekelof.php\">translations<\/a>, including the one below (which of course all of a sudden rhymes strangely with events here, today, in the U.S.):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The purifying well<\/h3>\n<p>Give me water<br \/>\nNot to drink<br \/>\nBut to wash myself<br \/>\nI do not ask for oil<br \/>\nGive me fresh water<br \/>\nSee how worms breed in my armpits<br \/>\nOn my left thigh on my right<br \/>\nAmid my thighs<br \/>\nBoils supurate<br \/>\nI can pull the skin from the soles of my feet<br \/>\nGrant me your water to wash myself in<br \/>\nNot your oil<br \/>\nOil I refuse<br \/>\nGive me water<\/p>\n<p>from Diwan \u00f6ver Fursten av Emgi\u00f3n (Diwan on the Prince of Emgion)  1965<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came across this little poem by Gunnar Ekel\u00f6f in a translation by Steven Fowler on the Nthposition site which is introduced as &#8220;a monthly article series with www.Nthposition.com focused on European poets perhaps overlooked&#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":[91,103,1],"tags":[369,570,688],"class_list":["post-4130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-translation","category-uncategorized","tag-gunnar-ekelof","tag-nthposition","tag-steven-fowler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130","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=4130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}