book: The Essential Rumi – Rumi (Author), Coleman Barks (Translator)
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.
txt: 2010 World Poetry Day “The Words of Nature, the Nature of Words” – UNESCO
Doubling as International Year of Biodiversity and of the Rapprochement of Cultures, 2010 celebrates two essential facets of diversity: the heritage which is key to human life on Earth. Through poetry and science, humanity has been able to capture a full range of the world’s diversity. From their distinctive perspectives, poetry and science embody humanity’s noblest quest: that which UNESCO’s Constitution identifies as “the unrestricted pursuit of truth”.
video: Forgetfulness – Billy Collins Animated Poetry on youtube
The second edition of “Dire Poesia” (Say poetry) will be held from 21 March to 7 May 2010 in Vicenza. The event is sponsored by the City of Vicenza Department of Cultural Affairs and Intesa Sanpaolo Cultural Heritage in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Workshop in Vicenza. The event, curated by Stefano Strazzabosco, will consist of nine meetings with some of the most important Italian and international contemporary poets. The places of the meetings – the Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Palace Chiericati, AB23, Officina d’arte contemporanea – have been selected to amplify the evocative power of the poetic word.
txt: Dire Poesia 2010: Ecco il programma completo
La seconda edizione della rassegna “Dire poesia” si terrà dal 21 marzo al 7 maggio 2010 a Vicenza. La manifestazione è promossa dall’Assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Vicenza e da Banca Intesa Sanpaolo, Beni Culturali in collaborazione con L’Officina arte contemporanea di Vicenza. L’iniziativa, curata da Stefano Strazzabosco, si articolerà in nove incontri che vedranno la partecipazione di alcuni tra i nomi piu’ importanti della poesia contemporanea italiana e internazionale. I luoghi degli incontri – le Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Palazzo Chiericati, AB23 e l’Officina arte contemporanea – sono stati selezionati per amplificare il potere evocativo della parola poetica.
Programma:
21 marzo, ore 17.00 Titos Patrikios (introduce Filippomaria Pontani) – Palazzo Leoni Montanari
25 marzo, ore 18.00 Armando Romero (introduce Alessandro Mistrorigo) – Palazzo Leoni Montanari
6 aprile , ore 17.30 Dire poesia on/off: Ariadne Radi Cor – L’Officina Arte Contemporanea
9 aprile, ore 17.30 Dire poesia off: Alessandra Conte – Roberto Cogo – L’Officina Arte Contemporanea
16 aprile, ore 17.30 Poesia della migrazione: Mia Lecomte, Candelaria Romero, Božidar Stanišić (introduce Mia Lecomte) – Palazzo Chiericati
22 aprile, ore 18.00 Yang Lian (introduce Marta Nori) – Palazzo Chericati
28 aprile, ore 18.00 Edoardo Sanguineti – Stefano Scodanibbio – Palazzo Leoni Montanari
5 maggio, ore 18.00 Dire poesia on/off: Antonella Bukovaz con Hanna Preuss – AB23
7 maggio , ore 18.00 Patrizia Valduga (introduce Fabio Magro) – Palazzo Leoni Montanari
informazioni: direpoesia@gmail.com – infocultura@comune.vicenza.it
Esco da arsenali tecnologici
da insane, ipersoniche velocità:
si allarga la laguna su Murano,
mi ricolma d’aria fredda e di sole.
Con il panino in bocca e sorridente
prendo appena in tempo la quarantuno.
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[en]
I get out from technological arsenals
from insane, hypersonic speed:
the lagoon enlarges on Murano,
it fills me with cold air and sun.
With a sandwich in the mouth and smiling
I’m just in time to catch the forty-one.
[txt] “Of Mere Being” – Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) on Modern American Poetry
The palm at the end of the mind,
Beyond the last thought, rises
In the bronze decor,A gold-feathered bird
Sings in the palm, without human meaning,
Without human feeling, a foreign song.You know then that it is not the reason
That makes us happy or unhappy.
The bird sings. Its feathers shine.The palm stands on the edge of space.
The wind moves slowly in the branches.
The bird’s fire-fangled feathers dangle down.
