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Sidaja. 2002
About this event
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.
calendar_month2 September 2002location_onTrieste
Participating poets
Etel Adnan
Lebanon · French
Jorge Enrique Adoum
Ecuador · Spanish
Judi Benson
Italy · English
Ana Blandiana
Romania · Romanian
Agneta Falk
Italy · English
Jack Hirschman
United States · English
Marko Kravos
Slovenia · Slovenian
Josip Osti
Italy · Italian
Ugo Pierri
Italy · Italian
Paul Polansky
United States · English
Paolo Ruffilli
Italy · Italian
Ken Smith
Italy · English
Uroš Zupan
Slovenia · Slovenian