* 16 Special Guest: Bread and writing. The sum is more than the parts – second edition

May 27, 2014 

Saturday, May 24, 2014 
 in Rome – “Crypt of Saint Lucia of the Banner” in Via dei Banchi Vecchi 12, it was held the presentation of the second edition of the book “Words of Bread” project anthology of short stories about food, promoted by the writers “Diana Sganappa” and “Emma Saponaro”. The participants, including myself, have presented a single story, published or unpublished, having the union as a fundamental principle of this project, because the ingredients are blended in the kitchen, and the pleasure is right there: When in one gulp all the flavors are combined, as in the words, a universe in which everyone can join. In one word: sharing. And the proceeds of the sales will be donated to the “Association of Family and Supporters Suffering psychic Tuscia” (A.fe.SO.psi.T), because the Words of bread are not “empty words” 
 but a book for those who have no voice.

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And … the project continues …

And once again the meeting of everyone with whom he had spoken only via computer, as well as being poignant and uplifting, offered the opportunity to expose for a few moments some parts of themselves for a further extension on different approaches and styles of writing.

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And as for last year’s edition has appeared to enjoy the wonder of everyone: all together in offering a choral writing.

# 20 Contamination: The lyrical compassion: a poetic source for the command to care and maintains

March 6, 2014 

He who command and who in positions of responsibility, first of all, he should express compassion and empathy, even for those for those who are weak and dumb.

To that end, I draw inspiration from the song “Il Presidente” of the disc at 33 rpm and Fabio Celi  and Nurses – “Madness.” 

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It was written in 1969 and published in 1973. Disc This anticipates a two-year progressive rock and is already projected in the next decade. This Rock is built on the basis of two keyboards and the voice of Fabio Celi (aka Antonio Cavallaro). There are also foundations of classical music reconciled to the sweetness of voice and melodies italic, similar to some of the group’s musical “Banco del Mutuo Soccorso”.

In 1973, when he came out for the TV show “Studio 7”, the disc contains six tracks, was immediately banned by the Italian Radio and Television, limiting its distribution at the regional level.

Today in 2014 the chiefs, leaders, presidents speak declaratively and full of intent clear, with a child in the anal phase of rationality that wants to eradicate the evil, or people from one nation to another, or young leaders who want to expel , scrapping, and evacuate people, ideas and words. Or even novice knights who spread the purifying fire of acclaim, to clear the old putrid and rotten, and that is always more out of their own history and the environment from which they were born and raised.

And they talk about the advent of promising new was always far away, through their enthusiasm, gesture, ability. And all this is fine and noble, but it is always the “own” because they talk about “them.”

Who’s in charge would have the burden and the ability to manage resources and assets for the common good. He should listen to the obvious and conflicting points of view, preserving all, despite the changing conditions of survival to ensure the possibility of dignified existence.

This is not obvious, at least in recent centuries? 

The leader and the President should show compassion and care by the forces supporting it. A sense that it is her body and not so sacred and charismatic, but in the poetic sense of one who absorbs and reverberates. Of one who, like the poet amplifies it through limits and weakness.

The sense in lyrical poetic translation of the world is perhaps the matrix of the surplus of what we could be.

I propose a track on this album, from the title “President” and propose the text of a future modernity and a sweetness that is perhaps still not completely understood:  

È da poco tempo, che io siedo qui
massima vetta della società
E vorrei ascoltare, la parola di chi
Mi chiede pane, lavoro, e libertà.

Ma non è che non voglio, è che non posso
mantenere ora, ciò che promisi.

No, non fate quei visi.
Vorrei dir di si, a ciò che domandate
aiutare te, aiutare tutti voi
purtroppo non sono quello che voi credete
io qui sono tutto, ma non sono nessuno,
che posso farci, se mi hanno detto così
non fare un passo, non ti muovere di qui
che posso farci, se mi hanno detto di più
“ricordati, che chi comanda non sei tu”.

Che stupido sono, ho creduto
di avere tutto, niente ho avuto
prima di me, ognuno s’è venduto
ha messo all’asta la sua patria
la sua terra, la sua famiglia. 

To listen to the song click HERE

@ 17 poetically: the offer of a free kiss: poetry.

March 2, 2014 

This picture is one of the few Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Albi, November 24, 1864 – Saint-André-du-Bois, September 9, 1901) where the lovers are facing forward each other.

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In spite of all lovers maintaining the modesty of the eyes closed. Lautrec‘s paintings, usually, each character looks at himself when dancing, walking, or practice ablutions. Every body is just. This picture is one of the few if not the only, where the two parties are face to face, but her eyes closed. Everyone in the tension of the kiss that begins to connect his lips. The two bodies are not wrapped, but they are in a reciprocal call, as if each of the two, looking and feeling your emotional state, wants to share it with others. It is a kiss that is first and foremost a meeting. It is a discreet encounter: an offer.

The two bodies are held, but did not grasp. The arms are placed on the shoulders to get a perspective of alignment of the two faces and two mouths. The line of the kiss is a relationship that takes the picture. The bed sunk creates depth: it receives a balance of these two bodies lined by row of the kiss which is not cut, but it contains all the subject. The axis reveals a texture that starts from the mouths and with concentric circles, it expands from the shoulders to the hands up to the base of the painting, which implies the continuity of the two bodies, down to the feet. The line and the point constitute the epicenter of a dual relationship to synchronous two feelings of attraction.

The delicate features, despite the folds and turns the balance solitary, are offered by vertical strokes, almost as if we saw them in a dream, or a memory. The bodies do not want to be excessive. They do not scream and do not require attention: they are present and ready to turn out to those who gets up and holds his gaze. They speak to those who are willing to listen to the strokes chromatic and stamp the forms evoked by the framework.

The poem is also this: a chaste kiss and ready to overflow. A greeting that is willing to be a hug panoramic feelings, joys and sorrows, hopes and certainties, melancholy and despair. It contains all without requiring that, even when she stands as irreverent poetry of claim. The discrete sentences have the road open in poetic feeling, because naked, they immediately offer all of the speaker and that it evokes.

Toulouse Lautrec in this context reveals an inner stamp: a personal and intimate desire never fully evoked in his life.

* 15 Special Guest: Everything under control: the loneliness

 February 4, 2014

Hello,

here I am. From my ebook “Everything is under control. A body in the mirror, “I transcribe a passage dealing with the loneliness and isolation. They are unavoidable and common traits of our lives. Accompany us and sometimes we argue with them, although in some cases they are looking for as safe nest or as an illusion of eternal regularity. Have you dealt with loneliness or forced isolation? It has happened in your life? Or even loneliness is a path that leads to the final silence without memory?

“[…] And in addition, what the heck, adolescence is over. No: The mirror says you’re still young, but there is an awareness that we must distinguish between isolation and loneliness. Loneliness is not a bad thing. There is always a part that is not going to appear to others; or not? Yet everyone is convinced. Solitude helps make distant a part of himself with respect to the making, the appearance of things. It is the illusion of a help to reflect with him. I learn new words: If I become hypertrophic, then it is sick. It is the little that I want to see everything: the madness and pain. The ego is inconsistent for the claims and it is incomplete, because he is in the world. Solitude helps prepare resources to survive among the hidden nature and the imagined world. World and nature evoke different tones for everyone: an amazing concert by everyone and for everyone.

Another question is how the isolation status and needs, knowing that social relations feed malaise and discomfort within. Loneliness also accepts the company. The insulation is solved with good will. If the disease is persistent, uneducated and immoral because it does not ask permission, causes each to be isolated: shame, impotence and fatigue. […] ”

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Aleksandr Rodchenko, Portrait of Med Georgi-Petrusov

The book in digital format (ePub), you can find out:

Ultimabooks: HERE

Bookrepublic: HERE

ebook.it : HERE

ebookizzati.it: HERE

Amazon: HERE – kindle format.

* 14 Special Guest: Everything is under control. A body in the mirror

January 15, 2014 

Hello,

here I am. For a long time we did not feel dear friends. It was a period of intense reading, exchange of views and experiences with everyone, including readers, and work in progress. One among them is finished and it is, unlike poetry, my first novel presented as a autonomous, and it is not like the others shorter along with miscellaneous other authors. With “Everything is under control. A body in the mirror, “I present a theme overexposed in public opinion as superficial analysis. This argument captures the attention and intrigues many, perhaps for the feature to appear as a result of the remote psychic processes that are fundamental and pervasive in every event of the day. It is, accordingly, the paradox that this issue costuisce strictly a personal matter and present. In public opinion appears to be a double censorship that says the disease as a cause, rather than constitute the symptom and the signal from sinking into the abyss.

What happens when culture and society by determining the split between mind and body, they are seen with the eye of their daughter (technique)? What happens when the will that is intended to pursue manageable goals and reducible in terms of effectiveness, turns his arms to herself? And yet when the eye pompous and deluded of omnipotence, he sees the abandonment and failure always already certified? An unexpected occurrence that is precisely the separate and believed to be weaker, react and expose the surplus of what we in irriducible existence of each.

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Aleksandr Rodchenko, Portrait of Georgi Med-Petrusov 

The book in digital format (ePub) you can find on:

Ultimabooks: HERE

Bookrepublic: HERE

ebook.it : HERE

ebookizzati.it: HERE

Amazon: HERE – kindle format.

* 13 Special Guest: Sunday 22, No Fahrenheit 451: The best books you give away, you DO NOT burn them

December 21, 2013 

Dear friends, I must point out that I myself attend an appointment:

We writers reagaleremo our books. The writers meet readers in the square, to give their books. This is an important gesture: it is an awareness that the culture is disseminated and never oppressed.
At Christmas, “You yourself A Book.” This book gives it its author directly. At 16.00, in Piazza del Popolo (Rome), December 22 will be giving away our books to passersby.

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All writers will go to “Piazza del Popolo” (including myself) at 15:50. Everyone will wear a cap or a scarf or a scarf or bandana red. And each one will offer 10 or 20 books WRITTEN BY THEIR themselves, lined with white paper written on it (by hand, with the PC, with a marker) ONLY the book’s title and author’s name. Within the books there will be a bookmark or postcard or business card with signature or dedication.
At 16.00 we will distribute the books to passers-by, asking them to give them away after reading them and we will ask them to comment on our sites / blogs / pages.

The pleasant surprise to be able to say “thank you”

December 15, 2013 

The wonder that is accompanied with gratitude, it is always a surprise. Sometimes we imagine ourselves with our loved ones, neighbors or people in the fantasy stories and we look forward to live a life more intense. How many times have we dreamed of reliving the exploits of legendary heroes and historical figures to fit our desires, and how many times we, are happy, we foreshadowed a future yet to come, and perhaps impossible to achieve. And from everything we want originality tapping into what looks interesting, trusting to an imaginary audience. And then when it actually happens, the wonder is accompanied immediately with desired conceived and never confessed.

For a long time the works of Samanta Lai gravitated towards my feelings for both a playful vision is for the power to bring forth a true poetic sense. Two of his works became an integral part of two of my poems for the book “Mutual rebirths.”

Following do with unexpected, really not imagined, Samanta sent me a gift in his original work.

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The emotion and surprise yet, invite everyone to a shared happiness for those who have interest, because the picture depicts an actress that I admire him for his commitment to civil and his interpretive skills. Vanessa Redgrave has always been an idol of mine, because through her work as an actress, she has worked as policy and to claim to full citizenship for all, playing movies with themes of civil and political rights. In particular I remember a film about imprisonment in concentration camps with her marked by blue and gray colors gradually tending to black, where with difficulty trying to survive her companions, she maintains until the end his own humanity. This tired face veiled by white and light gray tones and anemic, she looks a lunar landscape formed by bluish iron that it is composed of a firmament hard and unforgiving.

Despite everything, his face worn down by poverty and suffering in pain received, says the desire to look compassionate toward humanity of everyone. And the frown turns into a smile.

And then: thank you,  Samanta.

* 12 Special Guest: What’s new at the XII Fair “More books, more freedom”

December 4, 2013

From December 5 to 8 will be held in Rome at the Palazzo dei Congressi (located in Piazzale Kennedy, 1), the twelfth edition of “More books, more free,” national fair of small and medium publishers.
As every year, the news will be lots and lots of visitors will certainly be happy about. However, during this year, unlike the previous ones, there will be a novelty that will surely capture the attention of everyone.

In fact, this year, for the free time in Italy, will be present (STAND A 24 – Fuis) the association NBA – No Brand Art, which includes 23 novelists, poets, essayists, editors, translators and promoters, who have decided to promote art focused on the content and autonomy through self-publishing and self-promotion.

The intent is to meet readers and bring their experience of self-publishing and, for those with public publishing house, self-promotion in a professional context.

But what is self-publishing?

The self-publishing allows you to access the publication by managing all the phases with the help of professionals and integrate with their business promotion that offered from publishing traditional. Added to this is the opportunity to access, through translation, markets potentially boundless thanks to online sales channels.

A new short circuit, which promises interesting implications and prospects, especially for emerging authors.

Not only that, through the self-publishing and self-promotion, authors can experiment with new ways of publishing, new genres and publishing formats (interactive books, e-books, etc..), So as to be able to respond more and more to the growing needs of the reader.

Readers in search of new talent will be discovered in the works of the authors independent of quality, a rich supply of original books, readily available and various genres.

An event not to be missed, during the days of the fair, will undoubtedly be the conference “The independent authors, self-publishing and the new frontiers of publishing,” where it comes to this and other issues of self-publishing and self-promotion, which will be held Saturday, December 7 at stand A24 at 16 in collaboration with Fuis.

For contacts and information:

Cetta De Luca, sedcetta@gmail.com, tel. 327 6829997

Serena Zonca, serena.zonca@tiscali.it, tel. 347 0583598

* 11 Special Guest: An interview about my most humble servant, but more energetic the poem: sharing.

December 1, 2013

I quote here the textual comment made ​​to me by the interview “John Garufi Draft” and the link to the interview itself, it is also registered in his blog, where we talk about my two books of poetry and biography of each, and that is also a common feature in the work: sharing.  

My radio interview with Lino Milita, author of “Mutual rebirth” and “Suspended dreams“.

November 30, 2013 by “Giovanni Garufi Bozza”

Dear Visitor,

Today I’ll introduce you to the poetry of Lino Milita, author of two anthologies almost twins, leave a few months away from each other, “Mutual rebirths” and “Suspended dreams”.

They have in common, in addition to the skill of Lino, the property of being collected varied, combining different types of art, poetry, photography, painting. They are selfpublished. It is commendable the graphics capability of Lino, who personally supervised the editing and the alternation of poetry and visual art. The fact anthologies appear hymns art and cooperation between artists, the pure, made a careful study and closer ties, which make these vital and rich texts. Note on the price. With 12 € you can buy two books of art, photography, poetry. Books varied, well-set graphically.

You’ll wonder if you are the poems that inspired the works or the reverse, but you will not find a clear answer: Lino dragged and you are done drag, he has inspired and was inspired by involving artists from different parts of Europe.

I hope in the assembly of the interview he had given no idea of what you’ll find in anthologies, adjusting sounds, voice and images into a single video. For sure, you will find valuable encouragement in what Lino says, because he only writes poetry, studying the savoring, it follows the history, origins. There is a precious knowledge, which has enriched me so much.

To listen to the interview click HERE

* 10 Special Guest: The crossroads of the clouds. The sum is more than the parts

November 18, 2013 

It is printing the book of poems “The crossroads of the Clouds” by Various Authors from The National Competition “Black Moon” – www.associazionelunanera.it with some of my poems.

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And once again appeared to enjoy the wonder of everyone: writers and newbies. All together they offered a choral work. And this was much more than the sum of the parts.

And for this purpose, I propose for the event one of the three poems that I have published in the book: 

Heartbeat of Love – Lino Milita

I played
and I did not think
to rejoice, involving
the lazy heart of wings,
landing
into the abyss of the gift
Moving in love,
with emotions
emerging, offsetting
embrace the vague,
recognizing
Now that I already loved,
and not I wandered.