Sidaja. 2001

Borders are walls, barriers, places of separation, but also gaps, bridges, meeting places. Behind borders there are often enemies, others who are different, but behind borders there are also desires, the desire for knowledge, identification with the other, another self. The known and the unknown, which should be clearly separated and looked at each other askance, become confused and mixed. Yet borders are also wounds, scars, arbitrary cuts, impositions, coercions. But they are also walls to climb over, doors that open, wonders to discover. And poetry can be precisely this crossing of borders, a place of meeting and exchange. Land of experimentation with new relationships and new possibilities. When the border city is a seaside city, a port city, then the borders are even more labile, more mobile, they seem to follow the movements of the waves, the undertows, the tides, being prey to the mistral, the bora. Border cities and seaside cities are also bridges projected onto another shore, onto other lands, and obviously poetry is also a bridge, it is a projection towards other territories, towards other places of the spirit.

Program

9/10 September 2001 Teatro Sloveno Trieste PROGRAM 9 September 2001 at 8.30pm Reading Andres Ehin (Estonia) Bogomil Gjuzel (Macedonia) Jack Hirschman (United States) Jan Kaplinski (Estonia) Miroslav Kosuta (Slovenia/Italy) Ban'ya Natsuishi (Japan) Michele Obit (Italy) Tomaz Salamun (Slovenia) September 10, 2001 at 8.30 pm Reading Agneta Falk (Sweden / England) Sinan Gudzevic (Serbia / Croatia) Umberto Mangani (Italy) Carter Revard (United States) Carmen Yanez (Chile)

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