{"id":586,"date":"2009-05-02T21:11:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T21:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=586"},"modified":"2022-01-18T11:50:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T11:50:45","slug":"poem-la-guitarra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/poem-la-guitarra\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: La Guitarra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, a poem by Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), from his first published collection, <em>Poema del Cante Jondo<\/em> (Poem of the Deep Song), written in 1921 and published in 1931.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Guitar<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nThe weeping<br \/>\nof the guitar begins.<br \/>\nWineglasses shatter<br \/>\nin the dead of night.<br \/>\nThe weeping<br \/>\nof the guitar begins.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s useless<br \/>\nto hush it.<br \/>\nIt weeps on monotonously<br \/>\nthe way water weeps,<br \/>\nthe way wind weeps<br \/>\nover the snowdrifts.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s impossible<br \/>\nto hush it.<br \/>\nIt weeps for things<br \/>\nfar, far away.<br \/>\nFor the sand of the hot South<br \/>\nthat begs for white camellias.<br \/>\nWeeps for arrows without targets,<br \/>\nan afternoon without a morning,<br \/>\nand for the first dead bird<br \/>\nupon the branch.<br \/>\nOh, guitar!<br \/>\nHeart gravely wounded<br \/>\nby five swords.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>Reference:<\/em><br \/>\nFederico Garcia Lorca [1931\/1987]: <em>Poema del Cante Jondo. <\/em>Translated by Carlos Bauer. San Franciso, CA, USA: City Lights Books. Page 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, a poem by Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936), from his first published collection, Poema del Cante Jondo (Poem of the Deep Song), written in 1921 and published in 1931. The Guitar The weeping of the guitar begins. Wineglasses shatter in the dead of night. The weeping of the guitar begins. It&#8217;s useless to hush it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-poetry","p1","y2009","m05","d02","h21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10492,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/10492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}