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A
ROOM IN JERUSALEM
a
poem by Tiziano Fratus
translated
by Gail
McDowell - original in front
[pagine
cinquanta]
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so
then and
this time your dark eyes delve into mine
you
will never belong to any man
I
caress you your beard is two days old and
begins to prickle
the
earth is the lord’s and the fullness thereof
[...]
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the
point is
ha
aretz
is the land where god gave origin to creation
it
is the land where christ shed his blood to
save man from his sins
it
is the land where modern history founders
struck to the heart without remembering why
the
point is
that
the point in question is out of control and is
losing itself in the dark of ages
those
at the center of europe and of an ancient
empire felled by its vices
who
only understand what they want to understand
or
rather who only understand at intervals
don’t
understand yerushalaim
at all
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IL
VOLUME / THE BOOK
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Una
donna. Un soldato. Il sesso. La difesa. Una
fuga. La conquista. Il muro. Due popoli. La
terra. Gerusalemme.
Il
volume include il poema in dieci movimenti A
Room in Jerusalem, pubblicato in Italia ne Il
Vangelo della Carne (trad. Flesh Gospel),
Edizioni
Torino Poesia, Torino, 2008.
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A
Woman. A Soldier. The Sex. The Defence. An
Escape. The Conquest. The Wall. Two Peoples.
The Land. Jerusalem.
A
volume
includes a poem in ten movements A Room in
Jerusalem, published in Italy in the Il
Vangelo della Carne (trad. Flesh Gospel),
Edizioni
Torino Poesia, Turin, 2008.
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Illustrazione
in copertina / cover illustration: Giacomo
Sampieri, Motel, olio su tela, 2006, Courtesy
of Galleria Bianca Maria Rizzi, Milano.
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Il
volume è pubblicato dalla Farfalla Press /
McMillan
& Parrish, Brooklyn, nell'ambito della
partnership che unisce la casa editrice
americana e le Edizioni Torino Poesia.
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NEWS:
sono online le riprese al Bowery Poetry Club
di New York (YouTube).
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CRITICHE
/ REVIEWS
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“The poetry of Tiziano Fratus sparks emotions
through its ability to incorporate the most
diverse fragments of life.”
(Giovanni Tesio - Tutto Libri, La Stampa)
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“Fratus is a profuse singer of
cosmic poetry; he uses the written word like
an act of revolt; he is insubordinate; he
makes a mirror of reality that kills the
reality everyone thinks they are floating in;
he makes a bigger splash that hides the diver
plunging into the swimming pool, like Hockney
depicts in his painting.”
(Sandro Gros-Pietro - Vernice, Torino)
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“His
chaotic voice is sermonizing without arrogance,
visionary without madness, descriptive without
descriptions, tempted by the monologging vein
of those who know what theater is and the
sacredness of theater.”
(Giuseppe Conte)
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“This world, our world,
pierced from side to side, in every detail,
sung with clarity and urgency.” (Mariangela
Gualtieri)
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“His writing is omnivorous,
determined to swallow the entire world, a
search for the meaning of a truth, inside what
is real and the projections that illuminate,
when they don’t mutilate, the
ever-precarious body of the poet […]
The poetry of Tiziano Fratus doesn’t flee
from the vortex, nor from the chaos; rather,
it searches for the geometric center of our
modern-day mal de vivre. […] The rest is
talent, instinct, rhythm and vertigo.” (José
Mario Silva - Diario de Noticias, Lisboa)
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LE PRESENTAZIONI
/ PRESENTATIONS & READINGS
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BROOKLYN
| 5 dicembre 2008, ore 17.00 - Long Island University
(presentazione e reading dei volumi The
Meek / L'Umile di Gary Parrish e A Room
in
Jerusalem di Tiziano
Fratus, coedizioni Farfalla Press / Edizioni
Torino Poesia)
www.liu.edu
NEW
YORK | 6 dicembre 2008, ore 14.00 -
Bowery Poetry Club (presentazione e reading
dei volumi The Meek / L'Umile di Gary
Parrish e A Room in
Jerusalem di Tiziano
Fratus, coedizioni Farfalla Press / Edizioni
Torino Poesia)
www.bowerypoetry.com
BURLINGTON
| 9 dicembre 2008, ore 14.00 - University of Vermont,
aula Phi Beta Kappa - Waterman 527 (presentazione
delle Edizioni Torino Poesia e reading del
volume A Room in Jerusalem, in collaborazione
con la cattedra di italianistica del Prof.
Antonello Borra)
www.uvm.edu
CHICAGO
| 10 dicembre 2008, ore 19.00 - Th!ink
Art International art gallery (A evening of
experimental and emerging voices in Italian
poetry featuring work read in the original
Italian and in English translation by poet/translators
Joshua Adams, Chris Glomski, Francesco Levato,
and special guest Tiziano Fratus, from Turin,
Italy. Fratus will read from his recent book, A
Room in Jerusalem. Poets whose work will
be presented include: Francesco Giuntini,
Giacomo Leopardi, Eugenio Montale, Giuseppe
Ungaretti, Eugenio De Signoribus, Emanuel
Carnevali, Nino Gennaro and Tiziano Fratus.
This event is sponsored by Italian Institute
of Culture in Chicago,
UniVerse of Poetry
and is being recorded forbroadcast by WBEZ
Chicago Public Radio for Chicago Amplified.
www.poetrycenter.org/?q=node/406
| www.thinkartsalon.com
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