Projections - United 1 E-Book

Enrico Micheli

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

UNITED is a collection of poems written from 1970 to 1980 where, the author, Enrico Micheli put into verse his life path including restlessness, anxiety, pain and a thousand other emotions. A common feature of all poems is their conciseness, as if the author was afraid that the feelings can slip away as the pen flows on the sheet. This composition does not want to be the clear and aesthetic consciousness of a period or a life but simply, a sincere search of communicating, a response to the concerns almost physiological of the soul. In these verses there is a snapshot of one's being, a scrutinize the depths of his own weakness and of his own contradictions, not to resolve them but to live them to the end. Each poem is as a witness of this struggle for and against ourselves, and against others because the truth that is at the bottom of every man has to be a common interest. This collection is divided into three books: Projections, A mask a day and Notes about the stars.

Leseprobe

United

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Enrico Micheli

projections

January 1970 - February 1972

The Author

Enrico Micheli was born in an apartment on Urbano Rattazzi Street in Rome in 1949, in the Appio Tuscolano neighborhood, where he lived until the '90s. Completed technical studies and statistics becomes a journalist, an activity that starts since 1972.

In the workplace he experiences many areas of communication including photography, directing, editing and copywriting. Among his various passions his main interests are music, film and acting. Club member of the Great Travellers, he loves meeting new people while remaining tight to the family and friends.

Poetry is his way of communicating across time and space; to look for, remember and sometimes even find himself. His philosophy of life inspired by the words of the commander Che Guevara describing a revolutionary: «... is always motivated by great feelings of love».

UNITED is a collection of poems written from 1970 to 1980 where Enrico Micheli put into verse his life path - including restlessness, anxiety, pain, hope, joy, and a thousand other emotions - divided into three books: Projections, A mask a day and Notes about the stars.

Copyright 2015: Enrico Micheli

Publication Manager: Michelangelo Micheli

Translation: Carla Condarcuri

Cover and graphic project: Elisabetta Alfieri

Illustrations: Gabriella Filosa

Youcanprint Self-Publishing

ISBN: 9788891198587

Foreword

Presenting a book of poems is always very difficult so it's personal and I would say almost exclusively licensed this form of expression and any attempt to do so, whether successful or not, could be criticized and discussed.

With this in mind, I wrote these short notes as impressions of a player any, with the only advantage of knowing deeply the author, and can therefore help to understand any other readers.

The book covers a period of two years from January 1970 to February 1972 and consists of 51 poems, though poetry is a term at the same time restrictive and extensive for such compositions.

A common feature of all is their brevity and conciseness, as if the author was afraid that the feelings can slip away as the pen flows on the sheet. This almost ravenous expression is objectively a limit, because it involves too simple directness of the word, which makes the thought, in an almost brutal way, summarizing the feelings and passions in life images that restricts breathing and prevents a sublimation of the universal idea.

But just as this limit defines the validity of this composition, deliberately does not want to be neither the clear and aesthetic consciousness of a period or a life, nor a reflection on the men and their story, but simply, a passionate confession, a sincere search of communicating, a response to the concerns almost physiological of the soul.

In fact, in these verses, rather than a rational manifestation of the ego, there is a snapshot, sometimes precipitous, of one's being, a scrutinize the depths of his own weakness and of his own contradictions, not to resolve them in overcoming the contingent, but to live them to the end, because it is their very essence that still escapes.

From here, projects, aspirations, complaints that involve everything, sometimes even in a discordant way, but it is life itself that, captured moment by moment, as said before, looks like this to a generous but tormented personality. This lack of a bottom line, a solid prospect of wider horizon, can be positive if it does not mean surrender, or worse yet comfortable refuge in an existential anxiety, which, although painful, provides us with an alibi for our inner emptiness, but rather continuous and at times, painful research of ourselves; It's just not the declaration of a defeat but the testimony of a tough fight.

It is, above all, as a witness of this struggle for and against ourselves, and against others, that you must read these compositions, beyond any consideration of artistic, which would be out of place, and any intellectual skepticism, which would be self-harm, because the truth that is at the bottom of every man has to be a common interest.

Davide Ceteroni