Ivan Pozzoni
Anti-poet, victim of my anti-poetry,
all I could do is dedicate to you an anti-promise of love,
my anti-promise of love would have the features of a synesthesia,
the Stalinist hardness of steel and the softness of colour,
the finesse of friendship and the consistency of love,
your white eyes turn me into a hydrophobic cynic,
and there’s no doctor for rage, my love.
An anti-promise of love to be read before a registrar,
as to convince a tecno-trivial world,
i’ve loved you since June 1976, perhaps, in truth, since April,
i was an embryo and you were still immersed in the aurora borealis,
for six years you would have been an angel, a ghost, the inessential of a fractal,
without batting an eyelid waiting for you, six years, thirty-six years, with nothing to say,
the sheep of Panurge’s contemporaries would condemn me to total silence.
You are my anti-promise of love, and the idea may seem imperceptible to you,
i observe you sleeping, serene, like a crumb abandoned in a toaster,
my love I am stripped of the role of ‘sapper’ – it is abyssal like a submarine,
condemned to scatter torpedoes under the (false) guise of a dogfish.
Ivan Pozzoni, from Monza, is a pioneer of Law and Literature studies in Italy and an extensive author on Italian philosophy, ancient ethics, and legal theory. Between 2007 and 2018, he published numerous works, including Underground, Riserva Indiana, Versi Introversi, Carmina non dant damen, and The Invective Disease. Pozzoni founded and directed the literary magazines Il Guastatore and L’Arrivista and serves as editor of the international philosophical journal Información Filosófica. Known for founding the NéoN-avant-garde movement, he authored an anti-manifesto and is featured in major university manuals and critical anthologies. His works, translated into French, English, and Spanish, have earned him critical acclaim, including the prestigious Raduga Award. In 2024, he reentered Italy’s art scene by establishing the NSEAE Kolektivne (New Socio/Ethno/Aesthetic Anthropology).
