Dino Campana

Dino Campana – The Night Of the Fair/La sera di fiera

Franco Gentilini, The street, 1977 My heart tonight said: do you not know? The enchanting rose-brown girl, adorned with that golden head of hair: and those shining brown eyes whose imperious grace enchanted the roseate freshness of morning: she whom you followed in the air the fresh incarnation of morning dream: who used to wander …

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Dino Campana – Genoa Woman/Donna Genovese

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Promenade by the Sea,1909 You brought me a little seaweedin your hair, and a wind odorthat came in from hundreds of miles away and arrivesheavy with meaning, smuggled in your tanned skin:-O the divinesimplicity of your acrobat’s body-not love not spasm, but something untouchable,necessity’s ghost that walks aimlesslyserene and ineluctable through …

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Dino Campana (1885-1932)

Dino Campana was an Italian visionary poet. He only published a book of poetry, Canti Orfici (Orphic Songs). His wild and erratic personality and his ill-fated love affair with Sibilla Aleramo set him as an Italian example of a poète maudit.