Day: April 18, 2020

Antonio Machado – Al grande zero / To the Great Circle of Nothing

Vladimir Kush, Sunrise by the Ocean, 2000 When the I AM THAT I AM made nothingand rested, which rest it certainly deserved,night now accompanied day, and manhad his friend in the absence of the woman.Let there be shadow! Human thinking broke out.And the universal egg rose, empty,pale, chill and not yet heavy with matter,full of …

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Diane Wakoski – Il padre del mio paese / The Father of My Country

Thomas Alexander Ferguson Graham, Alone in London, 1904 My father was not in the telephone bookin my city;my father was not sleeping with my motherat home;my father did not care if I studied thepiano;my father did not care whatI did;and I thought my father was handsome and I loved him and I wonderedwhyhe left me …

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William Shakespeare – Essere o non essere (Monologo di Amleto)/ To be or not to be (Hamlet Monologue)

Luigi Russolo, Self-portrait with skulls, 1909 To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;No more; and, by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache …

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine – Ematologia pediatrica

Amedeo Modigliani, The Blue eyed Boy, 1916 Turbini di cranio fessi, lancinanti lampi nascosti tra le tende, le stanze disegnate mi portano all’infanzia malata, ancora viva (limitrofi ritmi e profumi opulenti, non c’è passato) la fionda dell’esistenza è un silenzio fatale. Do you know this poem in English? Please contact me Go back to album …

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