{"id":17017,"date":"2021-08-01T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T05:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=17017"},"modified":"2021-07-30T14:47:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T19:47:39","slug":"and-yet-we-were-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/17017","title":{"rendered":"And Yet We Were Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>A poem by\u00a0 Chandra Livia Candiani, translated from the Italian by Roy Duffield and Elisabetta Taboga<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And yet we were alone<br \/>\nwhen you delivered me over<br \/>\nto the darkness of the December night,<br \/>\nthe borrowed father<br \/>\ndidn\u2019t decide<br \/>\nto come back,<br \/>\neveryone was on holiday,<br \/>\nyou birthed me out of spite<br \/>\nup against the foot of the night<br \/>\nagainst the festivities,<br \/>\nyou sowed my shoulders<br \/>\nwith snowflakes<br \/>\nand for days<br \/>\nI was half starved<br \/>\nand nameless, happily<br \/>\nburied in my alphabet of flesh.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4ra\">Chandra Livia Candiani, Roy Duffield &amp; Elisabetta Taboga<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by\u00a0 Chandra Livia Candiani, translated from the Italian by Roy Duffield and Elisabetta Taboga And yet we were alone when you delivered me over to the darkness of the December night, the borrowed father didn\u2019t decide to come back, everyone was on holiday, you birthed me out of spite up against the foot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[69],"tags":[25,36],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-4qt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17017"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17111,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17017\/revisions\/17111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}