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"It is not yet clear whether the years when we were distracted have completely ended.
We didn't notice that our cells were wearing out and new ones were arriving, and those of our father were going bad.
In hospitals, we walked straight towards a bed, never turning our gaze down the corridor, we listened to songs, got used to the worst ones, sang them loudly so as not to hear really true news.
Like certain magicians, we slipped thin iron sheets to divide the part above the navel from the one below and don't tell us you don't know which one we offered to the girls? And don't tell us you don't know that we listened to their requests with a precisely chosen distraction?
At funerals, we thought about other things if we went, trying to make the epitaph coherent: one who made it.
Made of pieces of man put together with jeweler's patience, arms and folded ears, partial eclipse of the eyes.
We walked on the wire, with the spoon in our mouth, on the spoon the egg, on the egg the weight of the sky."
(Luciano Ligabue)
Why him and not another? Why creativity, talent, intelligence, and a great sense of direction are gently accompanied by enormous professionalism and a lot of patience.
It's not that Luciano writes books for money or to reinforce his icon, certainly also for this, but his works wouldn't be so valuable if not accompanied by snapshots of his life transformed into music, films, stories, and in this case, poetic verses.
77 poems because seven is a special number for Luciano.
Last name: composed of 7 letters
First name: composed of 7 letters
Initials: they are two 7s if flipped
1987: year of the first concert
Date of birth: 13/03, 13+3=7
In short, a man haunted by a number.
This collection was created in a troubled period of his life, following the loss of his father and separation from his wife. Released in October 2006, this poetry collection marks a return to origins for Luciano, with his way of telling stories through characters, typical of his early records. Texts that recognize the masters of American poetry of the twentieth century as a point of reference, from whom Ligabue, like any respectable student, immediately distances himself. Because his voice, even in poetry, is unmistakably and solely his own.
If you really can't fall in love with the musician, there is a great chance of falling in love with the character through reading this collection.
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