{"id":71,"date":"2006-01-06T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2006-01-06T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T22:59:00","slug":"laabis-new-year-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/laabis-new-year-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"La\u00e2bi&#039;s New Year Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4187\/1128\/1600\/images.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4187\/1128\/320\/images.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following is the poem Abdellatif La\u00e2bi sent to friends as a New Year&#8217;s greeting, saying it was the last one the old year had provided. <\/p>\n<p>        Du droit de t\u2019insurger<\/p>\n<p>Du droit de t\u2019insurger tu useras<br \/>quoi qu\u2019il advienne<br \/>Du devoir de discerner<br \/>D\u00e9voiler<br \/>Lac\u00e9rer<br \/>chaque visage de l\u2019abjection<br \/>tu t\u2019acquitteras<br \/>\u00e0 visage d\u00e9couvert<br \/>De la graine de lumi\u00e8re<br \/>dispens\u00e9e \u00e0 ton esp\u00e8ce<br \/>chue dans tes entrailles<br \/>tu te feras gardien et vestale<br \/>\u00c0 ces conditions pr\u00e9alables<br \/>tu m\u00e9riteras ton vrai nom<br \/>homme de parole<br \/>ou po\u00e8te si l\u2019on veut<\/p>\n<p> Of the right to revolt<\/p>\n<p>Of the right to revolt you will make use<br \/>come what may<br \/>Of the duty to make out<br \/>Unveil<br \/>Lacerate<br \/>every face of abjection<br \/>you will acquit yourself<br \/>with an open face<br \/>Of the seed of light<br \/>dispensed to your species<br \/>dropped into your gut<br \/>you\u2019ll make yourself guardian and vestal<br \/>Fulfilling those preconditions<br \/>you\u2019ll merit your true name<br \/>man of his word<br \/>or poet if you will<\/p>\n<p>[translated by Pierre Joris]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is the poem Abdellatif La\u00e2bi sent to friends as a New Year&#8217;s greeting, saying it was the last one the old year had provided. Du droit de t\u2019insurger Du droit de t\u2019insurger&#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-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}