Keywords: Existence, Geography, Art, Everyday Life, World Poetry.
GOOD FRIDAYS
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Silvio Mignano
Italian | English
Translated from the Italian by Rowena Hill
Foreword by Igor Barreto
2022
Paperback | 215 pages | 5.5 x 8.5 inches
I, after all, am missing things that shouldn’t matter,
mismatched armchairs, painted doors, a little table with rum,
the sensation that that’s where it was left,
a word that I had lost
and that I certainly won’t find tomorrow.
- Silvio Mignano
“In the end, each poem is an artifact that preserves a marked formal imprint: a kaleidoscopic game, paradoxically very unified. These are poems truly carved in time as if they were pieces of music.”
- Igor Barreto
“The originality and power of Mignano's new poetic work consist, precisely, in not leaving readers any grasping point; they are forced to make a considerable intellectual effort to follow the poet's volutes. And is that not exactly what we ask of good literature?”
- Claudio Giovanardi
Silvio Mignano (Fondi, 1965). Writer and diplomat. He has published novels, poetry collections, stories, and fables for children. He is an illustrator and scriptwriter. I Venerdì Santi (Good Fridays) was published in Italy in 2017 by the prestigious publisher Passigli of Florence.