By Day In The Factory, By Night In The Cemetery
by Ivan Pozzoni / October 11th, 2026
The carabinieri discovered you
sleeping in the crypt of a cemetery
on the outskirts of the city of Padua,
where you had arranged an anomalous bed
on a mortuary table,
while reading Proust by candlelight,
in the posture of an awkward tenant.
Amid satanic rites, black masses, violations of corpses
committed, with abhorrence, throughout Italy,
you claimed a role in the city of the dead,
killed with dignity by the crisis of industry
which, in the once-wealthy north-east, at a certain point
ceased to regard as excessively austere
the act of going to sleep in a cemetery.
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, October 11th, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.
