Past event
Mediterranean Readings 3 poets for House of poetry
About this event
The new year of activity (the fifteenth) confirms the internationality and cosmopolitanism of the Casa della Poesia project, presenting in Baronissi, on Saturday 23 January, at 9.00 pm, three great interpreters of poetry and international literature: the Syrian Maram al-Masri, the Spaniard Juan Carlos Mestre and the Greek Sotirios Pastakas. The three poets will be the protagonists of a highly anticipated reading in the conference room of the Library-Media Library of the Municipality of Baronissi at the Convent of the SS. Trinità, in a sort of poetry festival, to inaugurate the new year and celebrate the milestone reached in the fifteenth year of activity which makes the House of Poetry one of the recognized points of reference for international poetry in Italy and abroad. Three great protagonists of Mediterranean culture which is, despite what has been emerging in recent years, a culture of meeting, relationships, exchange and hospitality. It is possible to feel in the poetry of these protagonists perfumes, tides, spices, stories, dirges, traditions and modernity, the pleasure and difficulties of living. The mare nostrum is a common and different territory, an autonomous and shared space. For Maram al-Masri, a Syrian from Lattakia, it is a return to our territory where she was recently a guest for a series of readings and presentations of her new book "I'm Watching You". An author of great charm, she quickly won over readers in many European countries and overseas thanks to a poetic vision where passion and eroticism are brought back to the essentiality of women's everyday life. A poetry of small things that takes the form of a metaphor of resistance towards every form of prohibition and impediment. A hymn to life and freedom. Juan Carlos Mestre is certainly one of the major Spanish poets of the generation born at the end of the 1950s. A few months ago the Spanish Ministry of Culture awarded him the prestigious Premio Nacional de Poesía. Visionary poet-storyteller who with his verses, sometimes accompanied by a bandoneon, creates images in which reality and invention mix in a sublime way, creating enchanting atmospheres, in a cosmogony governed by the action of difference and imagination. Mestre's is a voice of unusual depth, the fervor of a word illuminated by the ethical necessity of the last beacon of utopia: poetry. Sotirios Pastakas, a Greek from Larissa, in Thessaly, who tackles poetry with an original style and great formal elegance. A writing, his, in which tradition is expertly combined with contemporary language, always imbued with great irony. In his verses the echoes of Italian poetry sometimes emerge which Pastakas knows well also as a translator of Sereni, Penna and Saba, and at this moment of Alfonso Gatto. Since 2002 he has created the site "Poiein.gr" where he also hosts international poets with a broad exchange of ideas on the evolution of contemporary poetry. Casa della Poesia's commitment to a culture of encounter continues!
calendar_month23 January 2010 - 23 January 2010location_onBaronissi (SA)
