{"id":6582,"date":"2018-09-21T17:09:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=6582"},"modified":"2019-08-24T20:42:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T20:42:32","slug":"on-the-razors-edge-iceland-a-poem-by-anna-maria-dallolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/on-the-razors-edge-iceland-a-poem-by-anna-maria-dallolio\/","title":{"rendered":"On the razor\u2019s edge, Iceland. A Poem by Anna Maria Dall\u2019Olio"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nIslanda sul filo del rasoio<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n
Sospiro.                                         Spuma sgorga.\r\n<\/i><\/span><\/span>Ghiacciaio fulminato\r\n<\/i><\/span><\/span>frana fiume fluente.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAstronomico il debito statale.\r\n<\/span><\/span>                                                        Soverchi tassi d'interesse.\r\n<\/span><\/span>                                                        Basso livello medio salariale.\r\n<\/span><\/span>\r\nVasti strazi nell'infero profondo.\r\n<\/i><\/span><\/span>Campi di lava.\t\t\tO grano.\r\n<\/i><\/span><\/span>Fili d'erba sul filo del rasoio.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n
<\/a>(\"Latte & Limoni\", 2014)<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n
On the razor\u2019s edge, Iceland<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n
Something sighed\t\t\t\t\t    <\/span><\/span>\r\na flowing river is falling <\/span><\/span>\r\nfoam flows out.\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/span>                                                                       Too high is the national debt\r\n                                                                        <\/span><\/span>too high are interest rates\r\n                                                                        <\/span><\/span>too low are median incomes.\r\n<\/span><\/span>\r\nThe toxic torture in the deepest depths.\r\n<\/span><\/span>Either lava or corn fields.\r\n<\/span><\/span>On the razor\u2019s edge, blades of grass.\r\n\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/a>\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/span>Anna Maria Dall\u2019Olio<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n
She has been teaching English in Italian high schools since 1987. <\/span><\/span><\/span>S<\/span><\/span><\/span>he devoted herself to fiction, poetry and playwriting<\/span><\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/span>In 2005 she was ranked second in “Hanojo – via Rendevuo<\/em>“<\/span><\/span><\/span>, a Vietnamese cultural competition for the millennial celebration of Hanoj (1010-2010). Moreover, she was ranked first\/second\/third in lots of literary competitions for her Italian poems (2006-2018).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>She published a short novel, \u201cSegreti\u201d (\u201cSecrets\u201d, 2018)<\/em>. Besides, she published 5 collections of poems:\u201dS\u00ec shabby chic\u201d (\u201cSo shabby chic\u201d, 2018), “L\u2019acqua opprime”<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span> (\u201cWater oppresses\u201d, 2016), <\/span><\/span><\/span>\u201cFruttorto sperimentale\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span>(\u201cExperimental Food Forest\u201d, 2016), <\/span><\/span><\/span>“Latte & Limoni”<\/span><\/span><\/span> (\u201cMilk & Lemons\u201d, 2014), <\/span><\/span><\/span>“L\u2019angoscia del pane”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em> (\u201cBread is anguish\u201d, 2010)<\/em>. Finally, She wrote “Tabelo” (\u201cTable\u201d, 2006)<\/em>, a play in Esperanto dealing with mobbing as a supreme artistic form.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Web site: www.annamariadallolio.it<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0Robin Ouzman Hislop<\/strong> is Editor of Poetry Life and Times<\/a> his publications include All the Babble of the Souk<\/em> <\/a>and Cartoon Molecules<\/em> <\/a>collected poems and Key of Mist<\/em> <\/a>the recently published Tesserae<\/em> <\/a>translations from Spanish poets Guadalupe Grande <\/a>and Carmen Crespo visit Aquillrelle.com\/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop <\/a>about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)<\/a> and his latest Collected Poems Volume at  Next-Arrivals <\/em><\/a>
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Islanda sul filo del rasoio Sospiro. Spuma sgorga. Ghiacciaio fulminato frana fiume fluente. Astronomico il debito statale. Soverchi tassi d’interesse. Basso livello medio salariale. Vasti strazi nell’infero profondo. Campi di lava. O grano. Fili d’erba sul filo del rasoio. (“Latte & Limoni”, 2014) On the razor\u2019s edge, Iceland Something sighed a flowing river is falling … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[838,839,808,796,366,401,43,388],"tags":[840,18,136,3,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6582"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6873,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions\/6873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}