{"id":71969,"date":"2024-04-09T18:36:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T16:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.acosopov.com\/%d1%80%d0%b0%d1%93%d0%b0%d1%9a%d0%b5-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%b7%d0%b1%d0%be%d1%80%d0%be%d1%82\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T03:13:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:13:52","slug":"birth-of-the-word","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/birth-of-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth of the Word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\t\t\tBirth of the Word\t<\/h1>\n\tGnarl upon gnarl.
\nStone upon stone.
\nStone forest
\nfrozensolidness.
\nGnarl upon gnarl.
\nStone upon stone,
\nstone, too, the both of us.
\nSmoke rises in the night.
\nThe word separates from the darkness,
\nblue coal burning in its bowels.
\nO you who exist because you do not exist,
\nyou shake the sky
\nyou spin the earth.
\nO you who exist because you do not exist,
\nthe earth groans beneath stone plates.
\nDazed from its dyings, the word comes forth-
\nthe word that splinters all our temples.
\nGnarl upon gnarl.
\nStone upon stone.
\nOut of bad habit I dig my grave.
\nOpen me,
\naccursed one,
\nyou fortress of stone,
\nthat I may burn in the coals of the word
\nand melt away.\n\tAco \u0160opov<\/a>, Not-Being (Nebidnina)<\/a><\/em>, 1963
\nTranslated from the Macedonian by Christina E. Kramer and Rawley Grau,\u00a0The Long Coming of the Fire<\/em><\/a>, Dallas, Deep Vellum, 2023.\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"Original\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tOriginal manuscript of the poem “Birth of the word” by Aco \u0160opov\n\t\t\t\t\""Birth\n\t\t\t\t\t\t“Birth of the Word”, a paining by Ilija Penu\u0161liski inspired by the poem.\n\t\t\t\t\"\u201e\u0420\u0430\u0453\u0430\u045a\u0435\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWork by the Macedonian artist Dime \u0160umka inspired by Aco \u0160opov’s poem “Birth of the word”\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Birth of the Word Gnarl upon gnarl. Stone upon stone. Stone forest frozensolidness. Gnarl upon gnarl. Stone upon stone, stone, too, the both of us. Smoke rises in the night. The word separates from the darkness, blue coal burning in its bowels. O you who exist because you do not exist, you shake the sky…<\/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-71969","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71969","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=71969"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101861,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71969\/revisions\/101861"}],"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=71969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}