Before seeing myself laid out, in my endless sleep,
beneath the spotlights of modernity,
a sideshow freak of the theatre of death, of the theatre of culture,
I walked in the shade of my valleys, between Verrucchio and Castelfranco,
I walked, and i laughed,
I walked and i lived.
Before seeing myself curled like a fetus in a museum niche,
naked before your prying eyes, an archaeological relic,
catalogued by your manias of classification,
I walked in the coolness of my mornings not yet Etruscan,
I walked, and i laughed, gazing at the mountains.
But now that you have locked me away,
I watch you from my strange tomb,
empty of celestial gods or sacrificial victims,
as you study me, heavy with chains,
and i laugh, seeing you no longer walk,
and i laugh, seeing you no longer live.
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 18th, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.
