Not living in Tokyo, Moscow, Dubai, simultaneously,
we place barriers of three thousand kilometres between Monza and Milan,
you, intent on flying, Hesiodic nightingale, to Paris and the resorts,
I, distracted by the tonnage of chains that bind
masses of stayers to factories, houses, warehouses,
we dance, multitasking at different speeds, with sandals
(yours, Cleopatra’s; mine strictly Franciscan)
upon shards of diamond or cuts of glass,
locked in embraces as foreign as the robots
of remote surgical operations.
Accustomed to weaving webs of selection,
unweaving them each night, an ultra-modern Penelope,
to choose, to wear, to discard everything,
will you ever find the courage to wear
my straitjackets, with no guarantees against fraying,
to flush out the black fury of the rottweiler?
And will the enchantment endure for me,
for me, who count scars like stars on the celestial vault of my face,
as I mirror myself in your metic eyes,
hidden nomads behind tagelmusts marketed by Bryan & Barry,
without shattering into fragments to recount
to other metic eyes, and to others still,
unto serial infinity?
Ivan Pozzoni was born in Monza in 1976. He introduced
Law and Literature in Italy and the publication of essays on Italian philosophers and on the ethics and juridical theory of the ancient world; He collaborated with several Italian and international magazines. Between 2007 and 2018, different versions of the books were published:
Underground and
Riserva Indiana, with A&B Editrice,
Versi Introversi,
Mostri,
Galata morente,
Carmina non dant damen,
Scarti di magazzino,
Here the Austrians are more severe than the Bourbons, Cherchez the troika. et The Invective Disease with Limina Mentis,
Lame da rasoi, with Joker,
Il Guastatore, with Cleup,
Patroclo non deve morire, with deComporre Edizioni and
Kolektivne NSEAE, with Divinafollia. He was the founder and director of the literary magazine
Il Guastatore – «neon»-avant-garde notebooks; he was the founder and director of the literary magazine
L'Arrivista; he is the editor and chef of the international philosophical magazine
Información Filosófica; he is, or has been, creator of the series Esprit (Limina Mentis), Nidaba (Gilgamesh Edizioni) and Fuzzy (deComporre). It contains a fortnight of autogérées socialistes edition houses. He wrote 150 volumes, wrote 1000 essays, founded an avant-garde movement (NéoN-avant-gardisme, approved by Zygmunt Bauman), with a millier of movements, and wrote an Anti-manifesto NéoN-Avant-gardiste. This is mentioned in the main university manuals of literature history, philosophical history and in the main volumes of literary criticism. His book La malattia invettiva wins Raduga, mention of the critique of Montano et Strega. He is included in the
Atlas of contemporary Italian poets of the University of Bologne and figures à plusieurs reprized in the great international literature review of
Gradiva. His verses are translated into 25 languages. In 2024, after six years of total retrait of academic studies, he return to the Italian artistic world and melts the
NSEAE Kolektivne (New socio/ethno/aesthetic anthropology).
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This article was posted on Sunday, June 28th, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.
