{"id":310,"date":"2007-08-19T20:56:32","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T20:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=310"},"modified":"2007-08-19T20:56:32","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T20:56:32","slug":"poems-by-flavia-rocha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/poems-by-flavia-rocha\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems by: Fl\u00e1via Rocha"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rightbox\"><img src='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/media\/2\/20070819-rocha.jpg' width='160' height='167' alt='null' \/><\/div>\n<p>\nFl\u00e1via Rocha   is a Brazilian poet, journalist and translator living  In S\u00e3o Paulo.   . She has an M.F.A program in Writing at Columbia University and was the co-editor, with Edwin Torres, of Cities of Chance: an Anthology of New Poetry from the United States and Brazil. She co-founded Acedemia Internacional de Cinema in Sao Paulo. Her first collection of poetry, The Blue House Around Noon was released by Travessa dos Editores in 2004.<!--more--><b>Error System<\/b><br \/>\nNothing that will repair a mistake just made.<br \/>\nAlmost , late, almost cold.Threshold of the gesture<br \/>\n    [that will free one from hunger,<br \/>\nNo mater who arrives first, every one will have<br \/>\n     [a chance to look through the cracks<br \/>\nThe smell of the see spreads along the coast, enters<br \/>\n     [the doorways, the cracks around the tiles,<br \/>\nAnd is mixed with the essence of each house,<br \/>\n                           [each occupant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n<b>Selective Memory<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Any torrent<br \/>\nwill drain us underground<\/p>\n<p>hands drowning in a solution<br \/>\nof clay, water,parts of flowers.<\/p>\n<p>To decat us<br \/>\nfrom everything we know<\/p>\n<p>and lead us astray<br \/>\namong things other than flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fl\u00e1via Rocha is a Brazilian poet, journalist and translator living In S\u00e3o Paulo. . She has an M.F.A program in Writing at Columbia University and was the co-editor, with Edwin Torres, of Cities of Chance: an Anthology of New Poetry from the United States and Brazil. She co-founded Acedemia Internacional de Cinema in Sao Paulo. <a href='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/poems-by-flavia-rocha\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":546,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}