#Sono nata il Ventuno a Primavera....

#I was born in Spring the Twentyone....

 

My dedication to Alda Merini, whose poems I often used as captions in my work.

Alda Merini (Milano, 21 marzo 1931 – Milano, 1º novembre 2009) was a poet, aphorist and Italian writer.

 

Today, March 21, the first day of spring, Alda Merini would have turned 85 years old. The thing was even remembered by Google with a doodle Italy, against the backdrop of a bridge on the canals:.

 

She was considered the greatest living Italian poet. Born in a little wealthy family (his father was a clerk in an insurance company, a housewife mother) Merini began just 15 years with a collection "The presence of Orpheus" organized by the publisher Schwarz. And, as already attracted the attention of critics, the prodigious girl was having difficulty in schools "normal." He was rejected when he tried to go to high school Manzoni. They said it was not enough in the test of Italian.

 

Sang the excluded and has lived in his skin one of the worst forms of exclusion: mental illness.

 

SONO NATA IL VENTUNO A PRIMAVERA

 

"Sono nata il ventuno a primavera

ma non sapevo che nascere folle,

aprire le zolle

potesse scatenar tempesta.

 

Così Proserpina lieve

vede piovere sulle erbe,

sui grossi frumenti gentili

e piange sempre la sera.

Forse è la sua preghiera."

 

I WAS BORN IN SPRING THE TWENTYONE

 

I was born in spring the twentyone

Not knowing that to be born insane,

To open the turfs

A tempest could unchain.

 

And thus gentle Proserpina

Sees rain fall upon the grasses,

Upon the large gentle grains

And always weeps at night.

Perhaps it is her prayer.

 

JE SUIS NÉE LE VINGT-UN À PRINTEMPS

 

Je suis née le vingt-un à printemps

mais j'ignorais qu'être née folle,

que percer les mottes

pouvait déchaîner la tempête,

 

Et Prosérpine lègère

voit pleuvoir sur l'herbe,

sur le gros blé gentil

et pleure toujours le soir,

c'est peut-être sa prière.

 

 

Ezio Bosso: Rain, In Your Black Eyes

 

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