Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Italian poetry is out, after all

On this very blog, on March 31, Francesco Di Bernardo urged, with a post entitled "A Literature of the Diaspora for the Italians, the development of a literary production that could give voice" to the new migration of young Italians. "I received many comments by Francis show that among the readers of the blog is a keen interest in this proposal.

Moreover, in this perspective we were working a few months ago we, through the group that we formed in early 2011, just with the intention of giving visibility to a few young writers who live in London and write from within the state socio-cultural dispatrio. This term seems particularly appropriate to indicate the experience somewhat alienating to those who emigrate and feels the need to get a sense of sharing related to their language and culture of origin.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Dancing with the words

The dancer 90enne has blossomed and became the bestselling poetry. Toyo Shibata blossomed to life after being forced from back pain to stop his activities of traditional Japanese dancer. Her son advised her to translate the emotions and thoughts on paper so far expressed by the body, "not to feel frustrated." And in a society just frustrated and oppressed of all obligations of social and economic crisis more than the story (in fact, twenty years), the rationale of Toyo has begun to foster hope and pleasure to young and old (Japan is the country with the highest percentage of old in the world, according to Italy).