Artists and poets can experience moments of "cross fertilization"
Lidia Chiarelli: Inclinazioni di Luce – Slants of Light, Cross-Cultural Communicactions, New York 2019 (Editor Publisher: Stanley H. Barkan) on show at the
New York
https://poetshouse.org/event/27th-annual-poets-house-showcase/
Poets House is a national poetry library and literary center that invites poets and the public to step into the living tradition of poetry.
From: “Isole Vicine” by Daniela Feltrinelli – Agorà & Co., Lugano 2018
PRIZE CINQUE TERRE – GOLFO DEI POETI (XXXth Edition)
PORTOVENERE
Grey stone walls
resting on equal rock
run towards the sea
to the striped church;
they follow the headland,
and open like eyes in double lancet windows,
in the doors facing the light
that illuminates the long broken cliff…
Daring and steep walls
challenge the secret abyss
and the continuous waves disappear
in the dark caves like mouths on the sea…
The walls rise to the top
to the austere and majestic castle
that dominates the whole village,
resting on the slope;
then they go down boldly
and protect streets, houses, squares,
between small hidden gardens.
Very tall houses face
the narrow marine channel
colored in a single front
and they look at the nearby green island
that under a luxuriant livery
shows a cut of vivid rocks …
And the ravines and impervious paths
barely touch the white cliffs,
always shining in the golden sun
open and exposed to the waves and to the light!
DANIELA FELTRINELLI
(Translated by Lidia Chiarelli)
Me
I’m just a heart broken woman
Who wants to know why you had left her
And forgot your shadow on her hands
Printing its pale color
On the palms of all those who shake her hands
I am just a woman
Who tries with poetry
To iron the wrinkles of her salty soul
Before returning it back to heaven
___________________
Io
Sono solo una donna spezzata
Chi vuole sapere perché l’hai lasciata
E hai dimenticato la tua ombra sulle sue mani
Che imprimono il colore pallido
Sulle palme di tutti quelli che stringono le sue mani
Sono solo una donna
Che prova con la poesia
Ad attenuare le rughe della sua anima ferita
Prima di restituirla al paradiso
_________________________
Lidia Chiarelli: Immagine & Poesia-The Movement in Progress, CCC New York 2013
Lidia Chiarelli: Tramonto in una tazza/Sunset in a Cup, EEE Moncalieri (Torino) 2017
are now in the reading room of Il CIRCOLO DEI LETTORI, Palazzo Graneri della Roccia Torino
Books donated to Biblioteca Civica di Torino:
Lidia Chiarelli: Tramonto in una tazza, EEE, Moncalieri Torino 2017
Yoon-Ho Cho: The Light of Love, Cross-Cultural Communications & Korean Expatriate Literature, Seoul Korea 2018
AAVV: Korean Expatriate Literature (Anthology in English and Korean), published by Yoon-Ho Cho, Seoul Korea 2018
