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I bet you spent half an hour thinking about the choice between "odor of poop" and "smell of shit"... you know, when even the words really matter.

What a beautiful signal! If I say: first Gemini-Cocteau, am I talking nonsense?

@IMASOULMAN: heartfelt thanks, @LIGDJS: what are you waiting for? :-) @CAPPIO: on the mule, but with difficulty. I bought it at a steep price. But with Meshell, I'm always on solid ground. @acqualife: I agree, BITTER is another gem, softer than this one, but just as epiphanic then (1999) as this ten years later.

@KRISMAF it seems to me that you haven't just "broken" but you've also written it. :-) Jokes aside, why are you so relentless? No one here is spitting m. on either the reviewer or the book as a whole. We’re discussing an impression drawn from reading the arguments and the poetic excerpts. This impression might be wrong, but I assure you I'm speaking with a minimum of understanding. I wrote a thesis on postmodern poetry, and there's always a volume of poetry next to my bed (currently Lucio Mariani, which I recommend). Well, I also indulge in some writing, and a few pieces have been included in some local poetry competition collections. But I am well aware that I lack the preparation and intellectual depth of a Saba, Celan, Ungaretti, Mandelstam, or Akhmatova, whoever you may want to name. Perhaps, as I’ve already mentioned, I was too harsh and hasty, but I believe poetry is the highest form of art, and I approach it with a certain reverence when, instead, too many people just fill their mouths with it. I greet you and thank you because you are still one of us... :)

Certamente! Inviami il testo che desideri tradurre.

And thanks to NICO63 as well. A favor for the EDITORZ: why, if I search for the artist Meshell as I wrote it, can’t I find this review or the one I wrote a couple of years ago? Thank you.

Thank you for stopping by. @GATE: too kind of you, thank you. @GIORGIO: yes, having cube balls has certain disadvantages... @BARTOLO: welcome back, I was worried. Thanks to you too. @ALIOSHA: absolutely nailed it, night trip disco en solitaire.

believe me: it's less free than one might think. anyway, you're right, I'll read it and form a more accurate opinion. see you soon and have a nice weekend

Dear Twoofus, if you don't know what a poetic project is, I doubt you can access poetry in a total way. I'm not saying that poetry shouldn't be encouraged. I'm just saying that I've outgrown this kind of poetry at 17. (Always with the benefit of the doubt since I haven't read the collection). Many believe that the hermeneutics of poems is a rather subjective matter for the translators/commentators of the works. But that's wrong. A true Poet builds their lyric from very complex studies touching on science, philosophy, and even mathematics. Much poetry, however, seems to me to not escape from the bedroom at home (or indeed from the high school diary). One of the greatest poets of the 20th century, Gottfried Benn, used to argue that: poetry does not "born," poetry is "made."

@19 lengths: if you understand music as well as you know grammar, we’re in good shape.