{"id":103287,"date":"2024-08-19T08:39:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T06:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/%d0%b2%d0%be-%d0%be%d1%87%d0%b8%d1%82%d0%b5-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d1%81%d0%b8%d1%9a%d0%b0%d1%80%d0%ba%d0%b8%d1%82%d0%b5\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T12:15:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:15:01","slug":"in-the-eyes-of-the-signares","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/in-the-eyes-of-the-signares\/","title":{"rendered":"in the eyes of the Signares"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>\n\t\t\t<em>in the eyes of the Signares<\/em>\t<\/h2>\n\tLeave me here, my good friends-<br \/>\neven if I had been looking for it, I would not have found this place<br \/>\nwhich by accident I discovered.<br \/>\nLeave me here among these heavy stones,<br \/>\nthat I may make the House of Slaves one more stone higher.<br \/>\nThat the sound of the tom-tom may carry me across the Gambia and Congo Rivers,<br \/>\nand up across the Niger to the Land of the Dogons;<br \/>\nthat the young Signares may lull me to sleep with their songs,<br \/>\nand that, sleeping, I may dream of a never-passing youth.<br \/>\nThat in the blue eyes of the dark-cheeked Signares<br \/>\nthe blue sky of my homeland may rise.\nAnd that, when the tom-tom lures out the hivernage,<br \/>\nthe song of the rains may be a song of universal birth.<br \/>\nAnd that I-a stone lifted onto the House of Slaves<br \/>\nand dizzy from the height-<br \/>\nmay dive with this song and disappear into the beauty.\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/display-case\/\">Aco \u0160opov<\/a>,&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/the-light-of-the-slaves\/\">The Light of the Slaves<\/a>&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/the-song-of-the-black-woman-content\/\"><i>The Song of the Black Woman<\/i><\/a>, 1976<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>in the eyes of the Signares Leave me here, my good friends- even if I had been looking for it, I would not have found this place which by accident I discovered. Leave me here among these heavy stones, that I may make the House of Slaves one more stone higher. That the sound of&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-103287","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103287","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=103287"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103639,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103287\/revisions\/103639"}],"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=103287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}