Unknown Soldier
by Ivan Pozzoni / August 23rd, 2026
Soldier, between sky and ground,
cap upon your head,
uniform adjusted like an egg in its nest,
you marched swiftly, a living ferret,
toward the outskirts of Caporetto.
You marched vivid in the morning air,
quivering with adulterous cravings of ardor,
never once suspecting, not even in passing,
that you were a victim of a cruel cost of living;
you marched briskly, without a shadow of sadness,
diluting doubts into recklessness,
within your twenty years of bitter life,
summoned to close inside a coffin.
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 2024, 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,
Qui gli austriaci sono più severi dei Borboni, Cherchez la troika and
La malattia invettiva with Limina Mentis,
Lame da rasoi, with Joker,
Il Guastatore, with Cleup,
Patroclo non deve morire, with deComporre Edizioni,
Kolektivne NSEAE and
Lo Stato Pontificio with Divinafollia. It contains a fortnight of autogérées socialistes edition houses. He wrote 152 volumes, wrote 1000 essays, founded an avant-garde movement (NéoN-avant-gardisme, approved by Zygmunt Bauman), and wrote an Anti-manifesto NéoN-Avant-gardiste. His verses are translated into 30 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, August 23rd, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.
