Here are some of my ideas, if they can be useful, take care, Anny
I always thought that the fact of becoming public would have meant the
destruction of the self as a poet, having perceived poetry as a highly
private sphere, at times even obscure to my own immediate knowledge. While
words are words and they send their own interpretation to the privacy of
listeners. Poetry can be defined as a new animism, as soon as the poem is
given to those who are willing to read it, it becomes what each one wants it
to be, and in the meantime it is yours, as it was when you conceived it. And
it changes in time, as much as you are willing to change. Private or public,
a poem is a poem and it passes on new intuitions. In Italy we have some
interesting poetic ideas. They are usually hidden. They don't get on stage
and perform, or they do, but that is not relevant. Poetry slams are rare, we
just had the very first one here in Bolzano and the prize was not given to
the right person, if any right person was among the competitors. I don't
think that poets have to be actors. And I believe in the seriousness of the
work that has to be performed in order to distill poetic words, or any other
writing. I believe in the growth of a soul through all hardships life
implicitly carries within its days, and I see the Poet as an ageless person.
Rimbaud was an exception. Leonardo's self-portrait visualizes the image I
have of a poet, in it you can read his mistrust for his contemporary times,
he wrote backwards, designed his own furniture, every night he added up what
he spent during the day (soup, a glass of wine). His poems/notes were
metaphysical (meta: lateral shift, the act of transposing and object in a
different context) : "the summit of the mountain absorbs the rain from the
plain... (quoting by memory)". Surrealism in its fundamental lines
summarizes and highlights what contemporary poetry - in its best
representatives - is aiming to, that is a transcription of unconsciousness,
the notion of which - through Jung - has become universal. Our
collectiveness, rarely we get in touch with it, is the visionary social
sculpture Joseph Beuys sent into the future, made by the warm energetic flux
of personal enlightenments towards The Idealized Town.
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