MADRE NOSTRA TERRA Paolo Ottaviani . . sul suo crepato volto, dalla quiete sordo il crollo dei cari tetti, ansante . |
MOTHER EARTH
Paolo Ottaviani . . on her furrowed brow, from the welcoming rumble sounds with the crash of roofs dear, breathless that beyond death life should continue together. . Translation ©Matilda Colarossi |
Paolo Ottaviani was born in Norcia in 1948, but lives and works in Perugia. He has published extensively in the Annali dell’Università per Stranieri di Perugia. He was the director of the University Library and founder of the literary journal Lettera dalla Biblioteca. His poetry collections include Funambolo (Edizioni del Leone, Spinea, 1992), with an introduction by Maria Luisa Spaziani, the bilingual short poem Geminario, written in a neo-vernacular idiolet and Italian (Edizioni del Leone, Spinea, 2007), Il felice giogo delle trecce (LietoColle, Faloppio, 2010), the art digest edited by Eugenio De Signoribus Trecce sparse (Fioroni, Fermo, 2012), Piccolo epistolario in versi, written together with Walter Cremonte (LietoColle, Faloppio, 2013), and Nel rispetto del cielo (puntoacapo Editrice, Pasturana, June 2015).
Paolo Ottaviani blogs here. The original can also be found here.
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