{"id":9225,"date":"2012-10-24T10:02:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T14:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=9225"},"modified":"2012-10-24T10:02:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T14:02:16","slug":"rachida-madani-in-jadaliyya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/rachida-madani-in-jadaliyya\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachida Madani in Jadaliyya"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Check out the excellent poems by Moroccan poet\u00a0Rachida Madani<\/strong>\u00a0as translated by\u00a0Marilyn\u00a0Hacker<\/strong>\u00a0& just published by Jadaliyya<\/strong><\/a>. The first one is reproduced below; read the others here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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TALES OF A SEVERED HEAD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rachida Madani<\/strong><\/p>\n

Translated by Marilyn Hacker<\/p>\n

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The First Tale<\/strong><\/p>\n

I<\/p>\n

What city and what night<\/p>\n

since it\u2019s night in the city<\/p>\n

when a woman and a train-station argue over<\/p>\n

the same half of a man who is leaving?<\/p>\n

He is young, handsome<\/p>\n

he is leaving for a piece of white bread.<\/p>\n

She is young, beautiful as a springtime<\/p>\n

cluster<\/p>\n

trying to flower for the last time<\/p>\n

for her man who is leaving.<\/p>\n

But the train arrives<\/p>\n

but the branch breaks<\/p>\n

but suddenly it\u2019s raining in the station<\/p>\n

in the midst of spring.<\/p>\n

And the train emerges from all directions<\/p>\n

It whistles and goes right through the woman<\/p>\n

the whole length of her.<\/p>\n

Where the woman bleeds, there will never be spring<\/p>\n

Again.<\/p>\n

in the night, in her head, under the pillow<\/p>\n

trains pass filled with men<\/p>\n

filled with mud<\/p>\n

and they all go through her<\/p>\n

the whole length of her.<\/p>\n

How many winters will pass, how many snowfalls<\/p>\n

before the first bleeding letter<\/p>\n

before the first mouthful of white bread?<\/p>\n

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Check out the excellent poems by Moroccan poet\u00a0Rachida Madani\u00a0as translated by\u00a0Marilyn\u00a0Hacker\u00a0& just published by Jadaliyya. The first one is reproduced below; read the others here.   TALES OF A SEVERED HEAD Rachida Madani Translated...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,91,103],"tags":[1202,506,1310],"class_list":["post-9225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maghrebi-literature","category-poetry","category-translation","tag-jadaliyya","tag-marilyn-hacker","tag-rachida-madani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225","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=9225"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9234,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9225\/revisions\/9234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}