In weary office nights,
we find ourselves sharing senseless phrases,
like “[…] in the interest of the company […]”,
with no real interest in telling one another our dark destinies,
caught on window ledges fixing curtains or shoveling embankments.
Dandy friend, i, dog friend,
i urge you to shake out your duffel coats
in the land of coffins,
smearing yourself with the hardness of a life at odds,
savoring, between spotless teeth,
the bitter tastes of defeat.
The unkempt beard reveals itself as a symbol
of a refusal never surrendered to a society distracted
by an excess of attentions at the hem of its trousers.
Then you will wear disorder with ease,
undressing the thousand enchantments of a soul in revolt.
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, September 6th, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.
