The path of comets. 2001

The Tuscany Festival as an opportunity to also reflect on the tragic recent world events and as an opportunity to reiterate the commitment to the affirmation of civil values. The Tuscany Festival as a place where different cultures and traditions meet and where we recognize ourselves in the values ​​of peace, brotherhood, respect and tolerance. All this translates in Pistoia into the initiative "The path of the comets", organized by the Municipality, presidency of the Municipal Council, sponsored by the Tuscany Region and curated by Multimedia edizioni / House of poetry. These are two days of poetry (28 and 29 November, 9pm, Paint Factory studio, vicolo S. Andrea 1), with the participation of some of the most significant and intense voices on the contemporary poetic scene. "The path of the comets" (the title is taken from two verses by the Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva: "since the path of the comets / is the path of the poets") as well as a showcase on contemporary poetry that will allow you to directly know some of the most original and significant poetic expressions, it is a journey into reality and collective destinies through the words of poetry, it is a moment of meeting between different peoples, cultures and expressions. The meetings are divided into two evenings of readings in which some musicians called to interact with the poets also participate. The poets will be present at the event: Mohammed Bennis (Morocco), Louis-Philippe Dalembert (Haiti), Agneta Falk (Sweden/England), Sinan Gudzevic (Serbia/Croatia), Jack Hirschman (United States), Josip Osti (Bosnia/Slovenia), Janine Pommy Vega (United States), Eloy José Santos (Spain), Izet Sarajlic (Bosnia) and the Italians Roberto Carifi, Giancarlo Majorino and Alberto Masala. Poetic voices from different countries, who write and recite verses in different languages, united by the idea that poetry is first and foremost an instrument of solidarity towards one's fellow men. Through their cultural and civil testimony of great expressive force, the poets of "The Path of the Comets" remind us of those conflicts and lacerations that dominate everyday news. This is the case for example of the verses of Izet Sarajlic, in which history, for example that of the conflict that developed in the former Yugoslavia, is intertwined with personal events and "everyday" stories that have the beloved city of Sarajevo as their theater. In the introduction to his volume of verses "Someone has played", translated into Italian by Sinan Gudzevic and Raffaella Marzano, we read: "Considering that Sarajevo has become, in spite of itself, the bitter parable of our time of great hopes and enormous desperation, a place of civil coexistence of races and religions transformed into a center of intolerance and interracial hatred, we understand how this book rises, without any forcing on the part of the author or the editors, to a role that goes beyond the narrow literary sphere to transform itself into a civil testimony on the humanity (and bestiality) of the century that has just ended". This is again the case of the "Arcana" of the New Yorker Jack Hirschman, in whose verses political anger takes the form, in harmony with much of the American poetic tradition, as one of the liveliest stimuli for poetic creation, but where protest is combined with a great emotional force, as happens in the verses dedicated to the attack on the Twin Towers. Or the evocative images of the Moroccan Mohammed Bennis, as well as those of the poets Agneta Falk and Janine Pommy Vega, of the Serbo-Croatian Gudzevic or the Bosnian Josip Osti, which reveal a poetry that is an opportunity for testimony and which communicates civil passion and emotion to the reader.

Program

28 - 29 November Pistoia Studio Paint Factory Vicolo S. Andrea 1 Wednesday 28 November 2001 at 9.00 pm Reading Mohammed Bennis (Morocco) Roberto Carifi (Italy) Luis-Philippe Dalembert (Haiti) Jack Hirschman (United States) Giancarlo Majorino (Italy) Izet Sarajlic (Bosnia) Thursday 29 November 2001 at 9.00 pm Reading Agneta Falk (Sweden / England) Sinan Gudzevic (Serbia / Croatia) Alberto Masala (Italy) Josip Osti (Bosnia / Slovenia) Janine Pommy Vega (United States) Eloy José Santos (Spain) ___________ Musicians: Maurizio Carbone (percussion), Riccardo Morpurgo (piano), Martin O'Loughlin (didgeridoo).

Information

Municipality of Pistoia Presidency of the municipal council