{"id":418,"date":"2009-05-03T21:17:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T21:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/?p=418"},"modified":"2009-05-03T21:17:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T21:17:50","slug":"idea-vilarino-uruguayan-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/idea-vilarino-uruguayan-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Idea Vilari\u00f1o \/ Uruguayan poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Translated from Spanish by:<b>Andres Alfaro<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"rightbox\"><img src='https:\/\/mahmag.org\/nucleus-import\/media\/2\/20090504-idea_vilarino.jpg' width='173' height='210' alt='Idea vilarino ' \/><\/div>\n<p>  <b> He injures me and I bleed on him<\/b><br \/>\n                                                                                            He smashes me<br \/>\n                                                                                                          I break him<!--more-->The Uruguayan poet Idea Vilari\u00f1o was one of the most renowned figures in Uruguayan poetry because of her lyrical creations that can be found in such works as \u201cThe Supplicant\u201d, \u201cLove Poems\u201d and \u201cNocturnes\u201d.  She was also an essayist, literary critic, translator and composer, belonging to the literary group called Generation 45, which included other such distinguished writers as Mario Benedetti, Juan Carlos Onetti, \u00c1ngel Rama amongst others.  <b>She died at the age of 89<\/b> due to post operatory complications after a successful intestinal operation.<br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><b>Saying no&#8230;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Saying no<br \/>\nSaying no<br \/>\ntying me to the mast<br \/>\nbut<br \/>\nwishing for the wind to knock it down<br \/>\nfor the siren to rise up and with her teeth<br \/>\ncut the cords and drag me to the bottom<br \/>\nsaying no no no<br \/>\nyet following her.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                           <b>    Love\/El amor   <\/b><\/p>\n<p>                                                                                         A bird is singing to me<br \/>\n                                                                                                     and I sing back to him<br \/>\n                                                                                     He twitters upon hearing me <br \/>\n                                                                                                       And I twitter back<br \/>\n                                                                                  He injures me and I bleed on him<br \/>\n                                                                                                        He smashes me<br \/>\n                                                                                                          I break him<br \/>\n                                                                                                        He tears me apart<br \/>\n                                                                                                           I crush him<br \/>\n                                                                                                       He helps me<br \/>\n                                                                                                                  I pick him up<br \/>\n                                                                                               All filled up with peace<br \/>\n                                                                                                with war<br \/>\n                                                                                    with hate and love<br \/>\n                                                                                                         and once untied<br \/>\n                                                                                          his voice whines and I whine back<br \/>\n                                                                                                                He laughs and I laugh back<br \/>\n                                                                                       He looks at me and I look at him<br \/>\n                                                                                       He talks to me and I talk to him<br \/>\n                                                                                         He loves me and I love him<br \/>\n                                                                                   &#8211; It&#8217;s got nothing to do with love<br \/>\n                                                                                               we produce life &#8211;<br \/>\n                                                                                         and he asks me and I ask him<br \/>\n                                                                                and he defeats me and I defeat him<br \/>\n                                                                                and he completes me and I complete him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Translated from Spanish by:Andres Alfaro He injures me and I bleed on him He smashes me I break him<\/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\/418"}],"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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahmag.org\/archive-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}