Plays on wor(l)ds
by Pietro Pàncamo
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FogAugust 18, 2017Dazzled by silence my glimmers of darkness are the castanets of death. -
RemorseMay 23, 2017The efficient reMorse code, recently sprung from a skilful idea of my weeping sense of guilt, now tries to... -
My only wealthMay 20, 2017Donna Mills 1975 I’m as poor as nothingness and you were my only wealth. That’s why I can declare: «I’m doubly penniless as you... -
My correspondence with the pastFebruary 18, 2017I can define each memory as either a letter or a picture pastcard (pardon, postcard) I receive every day... -
A Brief History of TimeDecember 6, 2016Since at the beginning of time their back was scattered with charges of hell’s explosive fire by an infiltrated... -
Let the Punishment fit the crime?August 13, 2016Those narrow manacles, resembling a pair of small vices, were hindering his arms and were ready –if ever he... -
Chill poemsJune 25, 2016By writing chill poems able to convey not even a sparkle of human warmth, I’ve put in rime my frozen soul. Pietro Pàncamo -
The Translation of Poetry as an autonomous Literary Genre
by Franco BuffoniApril 7, 2016“I wonder” asked L. F. Céline in the letter to M. Hindus of May 15, 1947, “ how can... -
Franco Buffoni – Good Mo(u)rning, ItalyMarch 20, 2016Hello, dear friends of «Beyond Thirty-Nine». Pietro Pàncamo is glad to tell you that today «Good Mo(u)rning, Italy» has... -
In the early days of MarchMarch 10, 2016In the early days of March –my favourite month, since I’m a habitual walker, covering miles andmiles of countryside–... -
Psychic decompositionJanuary 13, 2016NGC 290 open cluster Music like mouth dribble: and the sky swells from the cries of madmen, their gaze is wind lost in... -
Alessandro Carrera – Good Mo(u)rning, ItalyDecember 3, 2015Alessandro Carrera Dear friends of Radio B39, my programme «Good Mo(u)rning, Italy» is back with a new episode, which will... -
A small treatiseOctober 5, 2015PREFACE: the following statements are a mud of nerve cells, kept together by silence. Silence is a hysteria of loneliness which generates and accumulates: time... -
Paola Loreto – Good Mo(u)rning, ItalySeptember 11, 2015Paola Loreto Hello, dear friends. There is a good piece of news for you: on 17th September, Radio B39 will... -
The screamAugust 6, 2015While I was strolling about deserted and dimly illuminated back streets, a series of atrocious and tempestuous shouts suddenly... -
Three poems by Alessandro FoJuly 8, 2015In the house where I used to live, now, shaking the tablecloth on the balcony for the sake of sparrows, -
Alessandro Fo - Good Mo(u)rning, ItalyJune 10, 2015Dear friends of Radio B39, I’m back, at last, with my podcast «Good Mo(u)rning, Italy», during whose second episode,... -
Do you agree?May 25, 2015Indolent cars, shining with warm vernal sunlight, are circulating through the streets of Punditown, an extremely important centre for... -
Weird worldApril 22, 2015On the several monitors scattered all over the production room, the picture changed from the lady newsreader of Red... -
Good Mo(u)rning, ItalyMarch 28, 2015Trionfo e Danza della Morte Dear readers of «Beyond Thirty-Nine», as you know I’m an Italian writer. But above all... -
A Tale of the Ragged Copybooks & Eyes in blackFebruary 21, 2015The Raven by Édouard Manet To “translate” my collection of poems into a real book, I took part in a... -
NowJanuary 21, 2015Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind Life has gone away. And nobody can tell... -
Verandahs of skyblueDecember 22, 2014Edward Rosenberg-Solnedgång i vinterlandskap, 1921 I A small lake of smoke inside the heart... Processions of sentences leave footwear of intelligence,... -
See you on Tuesnight! - It’s bound to happenDecember 9, 2014Sometimes I exclaim, when talking with my friends– «Otherwise on Saturnight, if you like it better». Why am I... -
My Dusktop and One WayNovember 26, 2014The sky is my dusktop, tonight, while clouds, the moon and the several stars seem as many symbols (software...
THE AUTHOR
PIETRO PÀNCAMO is a poet, short-story writer and critic, to whom the Italian Swiss national radio devoted, in 2012, an episode of the transmission Poemondo. His works have appeared in several periodicals, including «IF. Insolito & Fantastico» (one of the most influential Italian magazines of Fantasy and Science Fiction), «Gradiva» (a review edited twice a year in New York by the highly respected man of letters Luigi Fontanella), the Turin newspaper «La Stampa», «Poesia» (the poetry blog of the TV channel “RAI News”), the webportal «Poeti e poetastri» (belonging to the literary agency “Perroni&Morli Studio”, which often collaborates with the publishing house Bompiani) and the electronic version of the «Corriere Fiorentino» («Corriere della Sera»’s Florence edition). Some of his texts in verse were selected for Poetando. L’uomo della notte (an anthology edited by the Italian leading journalist Maurizio Costanzo and printed in 2009 by Aliberti editore).
