{"id":102351,"date":"2024-06-28T19:39:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T17:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/%d0%bf%d0%b0%d0%ba-%d1%86%d1%80%d0%bd%d0%be-%d1%81%d0%be%d0%bd%d1%86%d0%b5\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T19:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:19:29","slug":"again-black-sun","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/again-black-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Again Black Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tAgain Black Sun\t<\/h1>\n\tFrom what imagined kingdom do you come, from what ornate tomb,<br \/>\nwhich takes you in at nightfall and casts you out at morning-<br \/>\nwhere are you from, black sun, who pour down black rains,<br \/>\nwhich toll for the world like the last bell of warning?\nIs beast devouring beast? Are old branches colliding,<br \/>\ntrunk striking trunk, wild root against root?<br \/>\nDoes a falling star rip the sky open with fire?<br \/>\nDoes earth war with heaven, the living with the dead?\nWhat is that imagined kingdom, that tomb of gusting wind,<br \/>\nwhere a three-headed shade thrice-hungrily eyes us,<br \/>\nin this place of crime, of dry water without watershed,<br \/>\nin this black soil contained in a single human handbreadth?\nWhat is this land that we bestow our name on,<br \/>\ncopied from all the walls, all the darknesses and heights?<br \/>\nBlack sun, who are black in winter and summer,<br \/>\nhere both of us are covered in leaves of fallen sunlight.\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/display-case\/\">Aco \u0160opov<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/reader-of-the-ashes-content\/\"><em>Reader of the Ashes<\/em><\/a>, 1970<br \/>\nTranslated from the Macedonian by Christina E. Kramer and Rawley Grau,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/the-long-coming-of-the-fire-content\/\"><em>The Long Coming of the Fire<\/em><\/a>, Dallas, Deep Vellum, 2023.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again Black Sun From what imagined kingdom do you come, from what ornate tomb, which takes you in at nightfall and casts you out at morning- where are you from, black sun, who pour down black rains, which toll for the world like the last bell of warning? Is beast devouring beast? Are old branches&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":98423,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102351","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102423,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102351\/revisions\/102423"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}