Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Herpes On Top Of Nose

Migratory birds are not the ways of Fernanda Ferraresso

[Literature -10]
I do next to beat
a slight movement of the earth FF

There in the verses of this collection of Fernanda Ferraresso the pulse of the vivid corporeality. The verse that breathes (Breath Silence. Breath.) With the same rhythm of the body, the word a bottle pregnant agreements, lights and seeds that sprout and expand around it, leaving essences, nectars and aromas in the air "My body is a planet of cliffs / and hit the bird in me would like to draw a knot of flights" (p.82).
The language is internal, visceral sensuality infused with a slight, from which the reader is swept away in a proceeding that is "meeting" or "union", search beyond the threshold the unspeakable.

'm lying here .... dumb .... to listen .... and naked. (P.85)

It 's the charm of the writing and visionary dream, which in its very elusiveness takes a look at the next light and sacred.
The lyrical I is at the heart of the collection, in constant tension to the other. A body (a self) that is completed and rises when crossing the junction and confusion (even when the other is the absence or lack, also in the metabolism of mourning)

When you kiss me
rovesciami in love
night with a bowl of milk (p.19)

* To listen to me I have in a naked silence
myself and flat land before thee "(p.85)

is frequent use of the highly successful metaphors, similes, analogies, vocabulary tests that expand and extend the line, relieving the whirlwind of research, as well as evocative references (many) uterine, umbilical, recognized as "the rings of a spine / vertebra candid and sound / that I finally stand up" (p.28).
A book to be read rather than listen, to trust and which to leave to control, because the links that weave "Tramanto", "perimeter" "Migration", watermarks are recognizable, sharing and belonging.

Fernanda Ferraresso, Migration are not the ways of birds, the salt bridge 2009

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by Maria Pina Ciancio

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Does Jeffree Star Still Have A Penis

Gian Ruggero Manzoni interviewed by Elisa Ravaglia

[Literature -11]
Intervista inedita a cura di Elisa Ravaglia (giugno 2009)

Elisa Ravagli: che cosa pensi del binomio "Scrittura creativa"? e dei corsi di scrittura creativa in genere?

GRM: Sinceramente non ho mai creduto ai cosiddetti corsi di “Scrittura Creativa” visto che sono da sempre dell’idea che si nasca artisti e non lo si possa diventare. Al massimo si potrà raffinare lo stile, ci si potrà rapportare-confrontare con altri artisti o con addetti ai lavori, bravi, per ragionare su quello che si sta facendo, ma temo sia impossibile divenire artista se già la natura non ti ha concesso il dono. E’ come andare in Seminario se già di tuo non hai la fede, cioè una tua visione di Dio, quell’amore. Là studierai teologia e ti confronterai con altri che credono in quel che credi, ma, e lo ripeto, la fede e il votarsi a una missione di vita devono già essere tuoi. Tutto ciò che implica una sorta di ‘mistica’, così io vedo l’arte, scatta a priori del sapere, visto che è un sentire… un sentire diverso dagli altri. Detto ciò, il binomio Scrittura Creativa è una contraddizioni in termini. Al limite si potrebbe coniare: “Corsi per scrivere con padronanza dello strumento” oppure “Corsi per scoprire se sono uno writer or a jockey, but creativity in those meetings, I see very little. Maybe if you practice a kind, that is yellow, science fiction or whatever, you can also write with only his trade as an aid, but the Art is whatever the job and then from crafts to help you make it in the book, in cloth cinemas, concert etc.. How can you teach a certain something like this? It 's like if Jesus had gone to school to deal with the Absolute, and above all, to say God forgive me ... and the chance, but it makes. I am romantic and elitist about that? Yes, and I'm happy.

ER: You can teach writing? if so, how? the talent training or if he has good if you do not have amen?


GRM: I have already said in the first question, but I will say again. Wilde wrote: "Art belongs to those who can distinguish itself from early youth" concept, expressed in another sense, even from Rimbaud and many 'great', so define it. Sure you can teach writing, must now search for the Italian to accompany you in this up to sixteen, and so learn to take account of, you know what are the rivers that flow into the Atlantic Ocean, or in History, What does a date as 1789, but the end there. Talent is nothing and has nothing to do with knowledge, it means traveling to a dimension of being that is not for everyone, so it is matter that can never be taught in school. In your life you can meet other like, face or by reading their works, but never, even one you like, will teach you who you are and even less what you're into art. However, if I were to advise a young person to go to refine the gift already has in it, I would tell him to enroll in a "course" taught by a writer of value ... but there are few writers or poets who teach how to value write in the most congenial, the young talent in front of them, because, usually, writers and poets whose value does not believe in those courses of "cut and sew" or "gardening". As is the case in Anglo-Saxon world, since there seems to be required, would require that such "classes" were held within the universities, which then reach a free program of study for those who want to participate, in order, as I said above, the help or find out where the talent is there, otherwise, outside the university, they usually turn into "training activities" to spend a couple of hours together reading teacher, or pseudo, and reading other che ‘aspirano’ all’Olimpo, i propri ‘birignao’ oppure, per chi li tiene, cioè per l’insegnante, o pseudo tale, per dirsi un qualcuno o per spillare soldi agli sprovveduti o a quei deliranti, e ce ne sono a milioni in Italia, che credono di essere artisti perché mettono una parola dietro l’altra. Sarebbe molto meglio che tali deliranti andassero da un bravo psicoanalista, forse ne guadagneremmo tutti, soprattutto ci risparmieremmo la marea di materiali inesistenti che giungono alle riviste o alle case editrici in questa follia dilagante del voler essere ‘creativo’ (poeta, narratore, sceneggiatore etc.) a tutti i costi.

ER: si scrive senza think? Gian Ruggero Manzoni writes? it is true that the most urgent thing you have to say is that coming out soon?

GRM: Sometimes you write without thinking, that dictated you flying to the other dimensions that are not real, or at least what we define as such, or thinking, that is with a well-defined project already in mind, or at least with the framework of that project already clear, in which, therefore, there is no recipe, and for this reason, it is impossible to teach the how, where and when to write. How can you teach magic? ... The magic, not illusion, understand me well, and we begin to give the correct meaning words. For my part I write as a shaman who casts the bones to interpret the future. Yes, I write ... and I can say after more than thirty years of writing. Then I see. But the gesture of the launch of her bones in the sand to be once understood what your task and found the gift you have. The rest is private so the act of creating that for me would be impossible to realize in the community. At best, I accept who is before us, one by one, and asks me to question the bones for him or her, but that happens so rarely that you do, only when you encounter a similar. But your are so similar around the world that he encounters in life you can consider five lucky. Already five shares of that magic is a record, a luxury that few have had. Regarding the urgent answer: no. It is not the 'what' most urgent one that comes out when you write, but not at all, is what you have in the deep, and often do not even know. This wonder of making art. If you write the urgency you usually write the "disease of life" that dwells in you, and what is not art, it's outburst, and diaries, news is superficial. Again better to go by the psychoanalyst, or better yet, a psychiatrist.

ER: How do you tell if what you read brings in the talent? I make them my reasons and examples?

GRM: Non posso motivarti un bel niente. O senti o non senti. Dopo aver letto le prime dieci righe di un romanzo comprendo subito se viaggia o non viaggia, così mi succede con la poesia o entrando in una galleria d’arte… colgo subito le opere che funzionano, che sono di valore, anche se hanno una matrice concettuale all’ennesima potenza; le senti, poi ti soffermi a pensare, le analizzi, ma è la prima sensazione quella che conta. Quando ti imbatti nel talento lo avverti subito. La prima volta che incontrai un’opera di Burri vidi l’aura che emanava, e la stessa aura la vidi attorno a lui quando lo conobbi di persona; ciò non mi è successo, ad esempio, quando ho incontrato Umberto Eco, formerly my professor at the Dams, Eco fact, even very good at his job, not an artist, not a magician, but it provided an intellectual narrative, and the difference there, as well as nine hundred ninety-nine people who write poems about one thousand are intellectuals, children of compulsory school, which compete in poetry, only that one is left is a true poet. The books of great writers also give off light or darkness deep, well that is a different aura, but emanate. If you are now Take your time, if you're not: hello. That is why, in Italy, will be twenty big, the other, myself included, belong to sottolegioni angels or demons even though ... it is not just a privilege, considering the many who can not fly like a chicken.

RE: question for a man also to theater in that report are the body and writing?

GRM : Total. Twenty years after I wrote the Manifesto of the visceral ... with this I believe to have you respond.

ER: You have a master? writing-teacher-student who has meaning for you this trio of words?

I've had at the time, when I read a lot, all dead, though. Very few were born in 900, in particular in Italy, then as in previous centuries. However the man is my master. They are the men who taught me to refine the talent, study, try to be like most of them. For example, I can say that Junger or Testori son were among my teachers, but Junger or Testori, first, I was taught to be men with a capital U, no writer or poet or painter or playwright. The instructors teach you to find yourself as being a man, can act as examples of rebellion, cultural and existential coherence, of 'diversity', they can prove that honesty still exists and has existed, but the work you are always big you have to do it on yourself. Finally you that you give the code and the method, and the originality of this house style, that is that marks you and elevates you ... making you, in fact, fly.

ER: Sscrittura empathic or sympathetic? you make me some examples?

GRM: If "nice" as is "ink (in fact) friendly," meaning that you can not read what is written if you do not have the secret of how to make it look, well, then, without doubt, a good esoteric I love the second. However, apart from the 'throw' and then threw it to me, is not required to specify. Empathic writing is when you feel the feelings of others, or you hear them, you understand them, as they capture the times, the dominant trends because part of you, therefore, that approach writing, you can also adapt, but in the sense that risk is writing to please, said to be aware and look for the applause, success, maybe the money, writing Nice when you try instead, with it, to provide answers to who, for instance, is evil, is pressed from its own self, and you will help him, disclosing the problem that troubled him, without being subjected, in turn of that condition, but in this case, you can cheat, but if writing is empathy and sympathetic at the same time, the whole, I believe, can become more interesting because, in addition to capture the mood of the other or others and to feel united with him-they look, too, to find solutions together. The fact remains that everything can be resolved in an illusion, in a theater, in which writer-actor and spectator, then, sin of the same disease, namely the need. Pulling out of this whirlwind, I'm writing for a (free and singular) that respond only to my personal need, without, therefore, tend traps or without the nurse on duty, so that makes it a pleasure to write to me first same emotions that myself, by which the story (again to myself) that makes me vibrate or I'm interested in eviscerating, without making any application I respect the other and then, if told, can be enjoyed even more, well, hello otherwise, each in their own way, as the problem, at least I live as art today, is lacking. I've always been a "maverick" and I believe that fifty-two years, will remain so until his death. Examples? Most of the narrative is now being offered is inconclusive sympathetically and empathically smartass, smartass when seeking consent, inconclusive when nothing changes, ie not "heal", do not give a "cure". It remains a fifth case (after the empathy, sympathy, empathy, sympathy and personal pleasure) ... writing that trying to 'indoctrinate-condition', and succeed, but I do not see the Titans this caliber around, I'm looking for now 'wizards' with this power ... and I'm very sorry. Let us be content, therefore, of some emotion, caught here and there, by this or that, and we continue to write books that we'd like to read, going where and how we feel better.

(Review by the Association LucaniArt ONLUS)

Monday, June 15, 2009

Close Up Fingerboards For Sale

Prayers of a poet Antoinette Gnerre

[Literature -9]
in “Lo spirito della poesia”, Fara Editore 2008 (pp 79-94)

I versi di questa raccolta di Antonietta Gnerre, colpiscono per la levità e la delicatezza con cui si dispongono e si affacciano sulla soglia, facendosi segno, preghiera e dono: parola testimonianza “povera e nuda di fronte al mistero”.
L’esperienza di scrittura della poetessa campana, si dipana dentro quel filone storico-letterario della buona poesia mistico-religiosa, che da San Francesco e Jacopone Da Todi, giunge attraverso Davide Maria Turoldo fino ai giorni nostri.
Nei versi di questa silloge (contenuta nel volume “Lo spirito della poesia”), si manifesta la ricerca the right of a truth that is not in the laws of man and the world,


"We wanderers
balls made of straw and troubled" (p.83)

"we live in abandoned houses by doves
macerated from history without smiles
of this religious vacuum "(p.81)

is rather an awareness of existential distress, the difficulties of life, large and small disasters that cross the planet. I do not reject the world, then, but acceptance, participation and crossing.
A crossing that you hope and revelation.

"I walked with my heart pounding
no mirage palm

for all sorts of evil are past" (p.89)

What is striking is the humility of saying "please / what I can bear (p.83), "my prayers are small to ships traveling" (p. 86) and capacity (which is beauty and strength) to recognize and rely on another dimension, that of a God the Creator: light, wind and "clear voice that sounds the strings of the heart."
could define these verses of the real praise, that the praise of creation and the creator (who are raised in the last section, in the form of small haiku to the Virgin), in which asceticism is manifested in the abandonment to God and his loving Christian charity.
conclude this note, do not forget to emphasize the value and the value of these verses in terms of literary style and, for a detailed use of metaphor, which, with its evocative power, it suggests very strong relationships and references that refer to that elusive mystery that sustains the whole work (poem-prayer) of Gnerre.
(anthology edited by Alexander Rambo)

by Maria Pina Ciancio