{"id":5921,"date":"2013-12-03T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=5921"},"modified":"2013-11-26T16:14:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T16:14:32","slug":"rafael-ayala-paez-translated-by-roger-hickin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/rafael-ayala-paez-translated-by-roger-hickin\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Ayala Paez, translated by Roger Hickin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>This is the house<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>With or without hope <\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>We always return home<\/em> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(Jaroslav Seifert<\/span> )<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is the house of lost joys<br \/>\nThe house where all things come together<\/p>\n<p>This is the house<br \/>\nWhere the humming of the sun is heard<br \/>\nThrough the cracks of the door<\/p>\n<p>This is the house<br \/>\nWhere deepest night<br \/>\nDrips from the wall<\/p>\n<p>This is the house of those we forget each day<br \/>\nWhere all things come together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Rafael Ayala Paez<\/strong> (Zaraza, Guarico, April 24, 1988).\u00a0Poet and writer.\u00a0His poems have been published in literary magazines nationally and worldwide. \u00a0He published\u00a0<em>Bocados de Silencio\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>The Lightness of Matter.<\/em> Some of his poems have been translated into German, English, French and Hebrew.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roger Hickin<\/strong> (b. 1951) is a New Zealand poet, visual artist, book designer &amp; publisher.\u00a0\u00a0 He is the director of Cold Hub Press which publishes poetry in several languages, including bi-lingual chapbooks of poems by two Chilean poets: Juan Cameron (with translations by the celebrated US translator Cola Franzen) and Sergio Badilla Castillo (with translations by Roger Hickin and the author).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; This is the house With or without hope We always return home (Jaroslav Seifert ) &nbsp; This is the house of lost joys The house where all things come together This is the house Where the humming of the sun is heard Through the cracks of the door This is the house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5923,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions\/5923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}