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Edoardo Sanguineti – Afferra questo mercurio / Grab this mercury

Egon Schiele, Mother and Child, 1908 Grab this mercury, this cold gum, this honey, this sphere of arid glass; carefully measure our baby’s  head and not twisting his imperceptible  foot now; in your nipple you must now change an extended continent of lamps, the obsessive breathing of critical  gardens, the belly’s lazy whales, nettles and …

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Leonardo Sinisgalli – Mi ricorderò di questo autunno / I will remember this autumn

Eliseu Visconti, Back to the trenches, c. 1917 I will remember this autumn beautiful and fleeing the migrant light that curves now as the reeds are being bowed by the wind. The floodwater in the canals has come up to my waist and, parched by the drought, I sank right in. At night in the …

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