{"id":17022,"date":"2021-08-01T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T05:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=17022"},"modified":"2021-07-30T14:41:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T19:41:06","slug":"not-an-experiment-with-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/17022","title":{"rendered":"Not an Experiment with Death"},"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>Not an experiment with death,<br \/>\nbut a long recurring<br \/>\nwound, the hard leather of childhood,<br \/>\nthe coins slipped from the mouth:<br \/>\n\u201cShe doesn\u2019t want to be understood.\u201d<br \/>\nBut rested and wrapped up<br \/>\nin the blanket, protected,<br \/>\ntired of measurements not defined,<br \/>\nsigns always shifted elsewhere,<br \/>\nstop no trespassing, what<br \/>\nis she looking at, the mum turned<br \/>\naway, what<br \/>\nis it singing, the branch without bird,<br \/>\nthe rain that strips<br \/>\nthe birch, don\u2019t they suggest<br \/>\nthe ambush of the words<br \/>\nthat don\u2019t end up in the air,<br \/>\nbut hung out on the line<br \/>\ndry in order to better<br \/>\nhit the flight<br \/>\nof the living?<\/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 Not an experiment with death, but a long recurring wound, the hard leather of childhood, the coins slipped from the mouth: \u201cShe doesn\u2019t want to be understood.\u201d But rested and wrapped up in the blanket, protected, tired of measurements [&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-4qy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17022"}],"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=17022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17113,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17022\/revisions\/17113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}