{"id":9379,"date":"2012-11-24T16:28:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T20:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=9379"},"modified":"2012-11-24T16:28:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T20:28:27","slug":"paul-celan-his-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/paul-celan-his-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Celan, his birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paul Celan&#8217;s \u00a092nd birthday was yesterday \u2014 he was born 23 November 1920. I waited out Black Friday to post on it. So, to celebrate the man, here, in my translation, a poem, the last one in the final posthumous volume <em>Zeitgeh\u00f6ft \/ Timestead<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Vinegrowers dig up<\/strong> dig<br \/>\nunder the darkhoured watch,<br \/>\ndepth for depth,<\/p>\n<p>you read,<\/p>\n<p>the invisible<br \/>\none commands the wind<br \/>\nto stay in bounds,<\/p>\n<p>you read,<\/p>\n<p>the Open Ones carry<br \/>\nthe stone behind the eye,<br \/>\nit recognizes you,<\/p>\n<p>on a Sabbath.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rebleute graben<\/strong><br \/>\ndie dunkelst\u00fcndige Uhr um,<br \/>\nTiefe um Tiefe,<\/p>\n<p>du liest,<\/p>\n<p>es fordert<br \/>\nder Unsichtbare den Wind<br \/>\nin die Schranken,<\/p>\n<p>du liest,<\/p>\n<p>die Offenen tragen<br \/>\nden Stein hinterm Aug,<br \/>\nder erkennt dich,<\/p>\n<p>am Sabbath.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Celan&#8217;s \u00a092nd birthday was yesterday \u2014 he was born 23 November 1920. I waited out Black Friday to post on it. So, to celebrate the man, here, in my translation, a poem, 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":[1117,103],"tags":[1730],"class_list":["post-9379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem","category-translation","tag-paul-celan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379","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=9379"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9385,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions\/9385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}