{"id":245,"date":"2010-11-19T22:08:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=245"},"modified":"2010-11-19T22:08:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:08:14","slug":"czeslaw-milosz-the-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/245\/poems\/czeslaw-milosz-the-advisor\/","title":{"rendered":"Czeslaw Milosz &#8211; The Advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Translated by the author and James Shearing<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, it is true that the landscape changed a little, for a lot.<br \/>\nWe have factories now and waste tanks where the forests were.<br \/>\nAs we approach the river-mouth we hold our noses:<br \/>\nA current of oil and chlorine and methyl compounds.<br \/>\nA huge stain of synthetic colour poisons the fish of the sea.<br \/>\nWhere the rushes grew, fringing the sea shore,<br \/>\nAre rusted and smashed machines, ashes, bricks.<br \/>\nWe used to read in the ancient poets the scents of the earth,<br \/>\nAnd grasshoppers; now we take pains to avoid the fields,<br \/>\nAnd pedal as fast as we can through the chemical zone of the farmer.<br \/>\nThe insect, the bird, are wiped out. Far away, a bored man<br \/>\nDrags dust with his tractor, umbrella against the sun.<br \/>\nBut what do we regret? The tiger? The shark?<br \/>\n&#8211; It may be the case that when Adam awoke in the garden<br \/>\nThe beasts licked the air, were yawning and friendly<br \/>\nWhile the scorpion&#8217;s tail was lashed to his back, fangs<br \/>\nWere only a figure, and the red-backed shrike,<br \/>\nLater, much later, named Lanius collurio,<br \/>\nDid not impale grubs on the spikes of blackthorn.<br \/>\nHowever, apart from and after that moment, our knowledge<br \/>\nOf Nature is not in its favour; our own was no worse.<br \/>\nAnd so, I beg you, no more of these lamentations.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Translated by the author and James Shearing Well, it is true that the landscape changed a little, for a lot. We have factories now and waste tanks where the forests were. As we approach the river-mouth we hold our noses: A current of oil and chlorine and methyl compounds. A huge stain of synthetic colour <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/245\/poems\/czeslaw-milosz-the-advisor\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}