“In 1917 [Tozzi] timidly came out with a book, Bestie, which was a sort of album of preparatory sketches. The title and the subject matter misled some hasty analogists who went so far as to find hints of Tristan Bernard. That lucid and dismayed way of seeing human suffering transposed into nature was, instead, all…Read more Federigo Tozzi: Il maggiolino / The may bug (from the collection Bestie)
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Carlo Betocchi: Vetri / Glass panes
VETRI Carlo Betocchi Sei vetri della finestranell’angolo della stanzasono la strada maestrad’ogni nuvola che avanza. Io, dal mio angolo pigrotendo insidiosi agguatidai poveri tetti emigroverso quei correnti prati. Non sono prati, sono lentisogni: sogno non è vero,sono fuggiti armenti:e nemmeno questo è vero. Vedi quell’azzurro. Cieloè il cielo, bambino mio,con la nuvola, nel cielo,va la volontà…Read more Carlo Betocchi: Vetri / Glass panes
Giuseppe Ungaretti: I fiumi/ The rivers
“[The rivers] is the very moment in which my poetry and I become truly self-aware: my poetic experience is the exploration of a personal continent of hell*, and the poetic act, once fulfilled, provokes and liberates, whatever the cost, the idea that only in poetry can one seek and find freedom.” Giuseppe Ungaretti in a…Read more Giuseppe Ungaretti: I fiumi/ The rivers
Toti Scialoja: Due sciacalli / Two jackals
Here we are now in the realm of "nonsense" (like life today?) with a rhyme by Toti Scialoia. I suspect the jackals must be playing with “human” pieces on this chessboard today. Who is the stupid one, who the sceptical one, and why have we let them get so far in this horrific game of…Read more Toti Scialoja: Due sciacalli / Two jackals
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