Be careful, the landscape flows, be careful, language bites. Notice what declines, what digs. Every consonant has a taste. Look closer. Every stone leaves a mark. Writing, painting, wave lines, water marks, moss murmurs, the asemic book of the mountains are a single complex language to be literate in. On Rilke's path in Duino, Italy, I saw the water lines on the limestone rocks. On a pre-Christmas day, I saw myself spending time online, wasting my afternoon, my breath, my son's words in a long continuum of digital data. In a dream, I saw my long-distance relationship as an Emily Dickinson garden, where absence became a green room of imagination. In a moment of intense focus, I felt the consonants in my mouth like tasty, dense matter. Attention expands experience, causing it to explode into a thousand sparkling shards.
The project is part of the subtheme Unruly Forms – Experiments in the Poetic Wild.
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Author
Cinzia Colazzo
Cinzia Colazzo, born in February ‘76, is a poet, mother of three, teacher and pianist. She graduated with honors in Philosophy and Music. She has lived in Salento, Liguria and Tuscany, France and Germany. She has worked as pianist, translator, Italian teacher abroad, Bechstein piano saleswoman and pedagogue. Her poems in Italian and German have appeared in minima&moralia; some poems have won prizes in international competitions; numerous articles, interviews and commentaries have appeared in Italy and Germany. She published her first prose and verse texts in the collection Risplendi forte (Raum Italic, Berlin, 2015). In 2023 Italic Pequod published her syllogue Il mare brucia, presented in Berlin, Paris, Lecce and Rome. In 2024 she won the Rainer Maria Rilke international prize and Vita Activa Nuova published her third book, Luce al neon.
