Cristina Bove "Flowers and Lightning"
Cristina Bove
1. Let's talk about you, before entering the heart of your poem, that of "Flowers and lightning."
Who is Cristina Bove? A brief autobiography possibly highlighting the artistic and cultural aspects that have made you a poet but also a painter, and more.
I was born in Naples in September 1942, I moved to Rome when I got married and still reside there. Many painful experiences I have scored, but also wonderful as the birth of my four children, love, friendships, reading, painting, sculpture, poetry. And now this magic tool that allows me to meetings of thought that I would never have imagined, and this interview that you're doing.
2. Which authors have most influenced the way you feel the world and then the society that lives / lives? Why?
My readings have been and are still those of a self omnivorous and voracious that they can not buy books at all libraries was a part of the city in which resided Even in Tunis, where I lived for almost three years, I enrolled in the library of 'Italian Cultural Institute, where I was housed with one of my personal painting.
I have read so much, that my memory is a sediment of traces left by various authors and topics, Shakespeare, Hugo, Goethe, Dowstoevskij, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bulgakov, the Greek and Latin classics, Pavese, Calvino, Bell, First Levi, treatises on medicine, astrophysics, I love Hawking, Eco ... Tagore, I could continue the list, in complete disorder of the acquisition. If I were to say what the authors have left their mark all I should say. But do not ask quotes, my fleeting memory allows me.
Joseph Iannozzi raccomanda3. "Flowers and lightning" is a particular book, there are indeed sections of the space-time case is a unique body of poems that can be read individually but also starting from the first to get to the last. If you decide to read from "I" to "Web", then one has the impression of having read a long hard life of a happy woman, you, Cristina. A simple life of riches and sorrows, never giving in to easy sentimentalism and hypocrisy, but always facing the lives of hard-nosed, even when life gives you marked with the mark of pain.
How did you choose the poems that would be part of "Flowers and lightning?
Meanwhile, thank you so well that he had grasped the meaning of my book and my life, the poems were kept in alphabetical, not chronological, because I always thought that poetry is more of a suggestion that comes from so perception of a moment, the emotion of feeling intensely lived, but it permeates every breath, every moment of life of those who are "suffering".
4. Your poetry is full of pain, of a pain at times tragic, but not paid for complacency. There is piety, but a piety that only man can give to his brother. There is a religion that is rooted in the historical time that is lived and not kneel to pray to a god who is said to dwell in the heavens. Can you elaborate?
The pain has taught me that every human being lives with the highest probability to prove that no one is excluded dall'ineluttabilità of death, that men are brave to live knowing that they have to die, that if gods exist, they are who need to learn from men, that they must love them, admire them, reward them for this show attended by and where each performance costs and the life blood of a human being.
5. Renzo Montagnoli, talking about your poetry, wrote: "... life is one, with other positive and negative aspects, but in any case deserves to be carried out fully, to love her with all his strength, which is not an act of selfishness, because what one should actually aspire to the true values \u200b\u200bare the foundation of every civilization, because it is innate and that humanity has brought in following centuries, every now and then forget it, in vain pursuit of happiness fetishes . [...] "
In your opinion, what are today the fetishes of happiness, those who are selfish that we should keep for our happiness and what we should be rejected in part or in full on? What are the true values \u200b\u200bof civilization, and above all, nowadays, there are still values \u200b\u200bthat you can believe your eyes closed?
The fetishes of happiness are the values \u200b\u200bcreated by the ad hoc consumerism in which we are fiercely intent on filling their bellies and be surrounded by frills and most of humanity dies of starvation. The hypocrisy of the religious systems that claim to be holders of the absolute Truth revealed (sic) in the name of God and unleash hell. The loss of dreams and ideals in favor of immediate satisfaction of instinctual desires, sometimes brutal, leading the man to abuse man. We should encourage the young employees of thought, to offer their appreciation and consideration for each intellectual achievement, making only marginal ones outward.
You can still believe in love and dreams of each of Prometheus, poetry ...
6. The extent to which poetry can help humanity to be better? And why? Why
shifts the focus from the instincts intuition from everyday life that flattens the originality of a thought that rises. Why do find themselves in their appearance with wings, that is not subject to the laws of gravity and does not need material means to express themselves, it is thought in search of a heart.
7. Your poetry is very direct, sometimes very close to the prose poetic musicality is given mostly by assonance and alliteration. I would like to explain to me what is your style, and especially how important it is to penetrate the soul of the poetry reader.
I find it difficult to answer this question, because I never stop to consider this aspect of my poetry. There are research techniques, even the choice of words are unexpected to myself, if I try to explain I would say that it is poetry that is looking for me, that I often hear only one case resonance that can express and echo.
8. Your poetry is intimate evocation or social message for a better civilization?
Of the first doubtless, the second I do not know if your message is just because it becomes the projection of the idea I have of a better world.
9. In "I saw the city," writes: "I felt my heart / wake up in the silence / diamond / search for the words / that poets / left read / ferns as touched by the moon / Lark rainbows and crystals / flowers of sea sounds color / colors of love / in a breath. / I am alive / because in my night someone lit a dream / poetry. "Poetry is a spirit, therefore saving both the poet and for the reader? And if so, why? Who or what saves us the poetry, which the soul can heal wounds?
Perhaps I repeat myself, but I firmly believe that poetry helps to shift attention from the immanence to the transcendent, from the daily burden of the mystery in which we are immersed. It does not give answers, but perhaps raises questions.
10. The title of your book: "Flowers and lightning." The more flowers or more lightning?
I think more flowers, because to fight a single lightning takes many flowers.
11. Probably I forgot to ask you something important, which is why I'm leaving you free to formulate and give you an answer.
probably would not know how to respond.
12. Thank you, Cristina. You were very helpful and very brave to undergo to my questions are not easy. I wish you all the best for your poetry and your privacy.
Thank you, Beppe, you have not been bad, and for me it was a pleasure and an honor to answer. Spare you the best wishes of all good.
Cristina Bove
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