PIOGGIA D'AUTUNNO Ada Negri Stanotte udíi, fra veglia e sonno, un cantolieve, sommesso, e pur vasto siccomeil vasto mondo; e mi parea nel sognodi navigare in barca senza remisu grigio mare, dentro un vel di pioggia.Era la pioggia, sí; ma sovra un maredi fronde, mormoranti di feliceristoro, nelle tenebre: la primapioggia d'autunno, dopo un'arsa…Read more Ada Negri: Pioggia d’autunno/ Autumn rain
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Friedrich Christian Delius & Bob Cantrick: From Die linke Hand des Papstes/ The pope’s left hand (excerpt & interview)
“The hands, what is it about the hands? Now I realized why I was so fixated on them. I had already applied my imagination to them once before, exactly six months earlier, when, in front of the television, I had long pondered whether these hands, whether the right papal hand―I always assumed he was a…Read more Friedrich Christian Delius & Bob Cantrick: From Die linke Hand des Papstes/ The pope’s left hand (excerpt & interview)
Maria Ivana Trevisani: Giovane donna nera/ Young black woman
Giovane donna nera ©Maria Ivana Trevisani Giovane donna nera, alta e fiera, in ebano scolpita, che cammini a piedi nudi sulla sabbia arroventata sotto il peso d’una cesta stracolma di vestiti di seta ricamata. Gentile donna nera, giovane straniera che ti muovi fra la gente -che non ti degna d’un’occhiata- mentre parla al cellulare…Read more Maria Ivana Trevisani: Giovane donna nera/ Young black woman
Parabola/Parable by Guido Gozzano
The poem #Parabola [Parable] is from Guido Gozzano's early collection La via del rifugio (1907), and it marked the beginning of his career. In this poem, we find his desire to communicate, to dialogue with the reader, and in doing this Gozzano “sets aulic verse against prose, setting off sparks”, as Montale stated. The ironic…Read more Parabola/Parable by Guido Gozzano
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