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    Dawn of our Solstices
    Dawn of our Solstices
    Dawn of our Solstices
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    Dawn of our Solstices

    By Aurélien Di Sanzo

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    Conceptual collection of poems about abstract and physical shelters : a memory, a place, a song, a feeling can be seen as a shelter that helps to escape reality for a limited period. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAurélien Di Sanzo
    Release dateMar 14, 2017
    ISBN9781507173817
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      Dawn of our Solstices - Aurélien Di Sanzo

      Dawn of our Solstices

      Aurélien Di Sanzo

      ––––––––

      Translated by Benjamin Hedley 

      Dawn of our Solstices

      Written By Aurélien Di Sanzo

      Copyright © 2017 Aurélien Di Sanzo

      All rights reserved

      Distributed by Babelcube, Inc.

      www.babelcube.com

      Translated by Benjamin Hedley

      Cover Design © 2017 Raphaelle Monvoisin

      Babelcube Books and Babelcube are trademarks of Babelcube Inc.

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Preface

      I – After the Shroud

      II – Alpha

      III – I Am a Well of Darkness

      IV – My heart is so dark

      V – Urban Rectangles

      VI – The Gold Prospector

      VII – Ode to Urbanism

      VIII – Untitled

      IX – Urban Laboratory

      X – The Stars of Paris

      XI – The Voice of Poet

      XII – I would like...

      XIII – Métro, Boulot, Dodo

      XIV – For Want of...

      XV – Buds of Poetry

      XVI – Total Eclipse

      XVII – We, The Condemned

      XVIII – The Headstone

      XIX – Automatic Writing

      XX – The Footbridge of Humanity

      XXI – The Autumn Mask

      XXII – On the School Bench

      XXIII – Innocence Doesn’t Rhyme with Mistrust

      XXIV – At the Dawn of a New Solstice

      XXV – The Oasis of Creation

      XXVI – Invisible Worlds

      XXVII – The Girl in the Painting

      XXVIII – The Tallest Man in the World

      XXIX – Abundance is no Longer a Dream

      XXX – Freedom

      XXXI – The Four Corners of the Sheet of Paper

      XXXII – Infernal Spiral

      XXXIII – The Cross in the Void

      XXXIV –Hammock’s Apology

      XXXV – Mono No Aware

      XXXVI – The Massage Session

      XXXVII – Distance

      XXXVIII – Our Statue

      XXXIX – Our Empire

      XL – On the Other Bank

      XLI – Your Laughter in Mine

      XLII – Californian Melancholy

      XLIII – Our Immortal Memories

      XLIV – What is Life?

      XLV – The Curiosity of the Adonis

      XLVI – In Pursuit of the Sun

      XLVII – Marine Tranquility

      XLVIII – The Cleansed Waves

      XLIX – The Dome of Light

      L – Paper City

      LI – Satellites

      LII – A Donation of Light

      LIII – Marine Exploration

      LIV – Half a Sun

      LV – Sleeping Gods

      LVI – The Hair of the North

      LVII – The Evening Dress

      LVIII – Omega

      Foreword

      This collection of poems could not have seen the light of day without the music of Hammock, a group that I listened to non-stop during the writing process. Furthermore, if you lost yourself in their music while reading, I wouldn’t hold it against you, in fact, I invite you to do so. The poem Hammock’s Apology is dedicated to them.

      Before everything, though, I would like to dedicate this collection of poems to two people who should already have been mentioned in my last collection: my parents. First, to my mother, who patiently reread my poems and who encouraged me throughout the writing process. It could be said that poetry as an art that does not need anyone’s opinion to grow and blossom, but nothing is more flattering than seeing the look of approval in the attentive eyes of a mother. And I also dedicate, most importantly, this collection of poems to my father. For a long time I tried to figure out where my sudden fascination for writing poetry came from, without really knowing nor understanding its origin.

      I had to discover, or rediscover I should say, the website where my father had published a number of his poems in the mid-90s.

      When I read them I am able to discern a penchant that is undeniably a sort of legacy that he left for me. But even more to the point, the themes, starting with a distinctive attraction to nature, unconsciously fed my prose. Poetry is not only innate, it feeds off of who we are. And though it’s never too late to pay homage, I believe there is nothing more beautiful than a handful of words on paper since they are assured to survive long after we cease to exist.

      Preface

      Starting with an idea stated by Enrique Vila-Matas, in regards to contemporary literature Jean-Claude Pinson, in his work A Piatgorsk Sur la Poésie (2008), alludes to writers who work in the negative and who renounce writing for reasons, in their view, of the little impact literature has on reality, and of those who work in the positive, those representatives of what Julien Gracq called the sentiment of yes, which stands in opposition to that which Yves Bonnefoy – who also stands in opposition to it

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