They called me mad, a textbook thesis,
a patient trapped in endless analysis;
now I lie stretched on a trembling wire,
because my world ignites my deepest crisis.
Forty years confined within myself,
a vase nailed fast among the blue irises;
so many counting, so many forgetting,
I long to live normal, still chasing crisis.
Twenty-one hours stretch heavy and long,
twelve hundred sixty minutes in strict hypnosis,
seventy thousand seconds pull at my arms,
I count each heartbeat, fearing the abyss;
falling into voids without smiles or bliss,
awaiting the end, relentless nemesis,
still clinging, still reaching,
forever chasing crisis.
Near a home of care, called Villa Serena,
I ask what calm resides in men’s nemesis;
I sway from high-voltage pylons,
grasping news with fingers in swift analysis.
An idle statistical part
of our nation, without a trace of thesis,
I claimed the right to work,
shouting: “Otherwise I’ll end this basis!”
And once, at least once, coherent,
I hurled myself from life’s cruel synthesis,
forever, endlessly, chasing the crisis.
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, September 13th, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.
