Noemi Ghetti

"Among the pages of Quaderni: Prison notebooks, the “Dante notes” on the Canto of the Heretics (Q 4, 78-88) give us access to the human, intellectual and political life of Antonio Gramsci. In his outline of Quaderni on February 8, 1929, while Mussolini was ratifying the Lateran Treaty, concordat regulating relations between State and Church, the essay…Read more Noemi Ghetti

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These women have accompanied me (on paper, but also in life) in the past two and a half years on my blog, their words, their wisdom. So many poets, writers, journalists, scholars, brilliant women...and I thank them all. Every day this month will be dedicated to one of them (and more). Enjoy. (mc)    …Read more #womenintranslation

Giancarlo Majorino: stracci sulle ginocchia/rags on knees

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Un avanzo di civiltà industriale/Remains of an industrial society by Margherita Guidacci

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Un avanzo di civiltà industriale

Di Margherita Guidacci

L’acqua bassa vicina alla riva

dove galleggiano

legni marci uniti ad angoli strani

da chiodi rugginosi

e dove si rovesciano i rifiuti

d’un astioso rigagnolo di fabbrica;

l’acqua dove la schiuma

gorgoglia in cerchi grigi

o si allunga fra lisce cicatrici

di luridi colori senza nome;

dove la nafta opprime la salsedine;

dove non penetra ondata

che sappia poi tornare al largo;

dove nulla scompare e nulla viene redento –

quest’acqua, a un tratto, ti trovi nell’anima

quando il male t’afferra

e per il tuo contagio sembra impura

anche la fiamma del sole

Remains of an industrial society

By Margherita Guidacci

Shallow water near the bank

where floating

decayed wood is united at strange angles

by rusty nails

and where waste spills

from a hostile factory ditch;

water in which foam

gurgles in grey circles

or stretches between smooth scars

of lurid…

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