A work that, like a periscope, explores the “landscape” of Arminio and for the first time manages to reveal the man hiding behind the artist. Norma D'Alessio in “Arminio & Arminio” published by Marlin publisher in bookshops and online, for the series Le Ginestre 3, delivers an unprecedented portrait of Franco Arminio, the result of a long study and numerous meetings.
The book will be presented at the bookstore “IoCiSto” in Naples at Via Domenico Cimarosa, on Wednesday, January 31 at 6:00 PM. With the author, the journalist Désirée Klain will intervene.
The passionate story of the most beloved, quoted, followed on social media and discussed by readers of all ages contemporary Italian poet, so popular as to often be invited on TV and radio, and even read during the Sanremo Festival, unfolds in a life journey divided into five sections. Immersed in a poetic prose, which seems to swim in the waves of the verses, the Campanian writer, embraces his most intimate affections, readings, ideas, curiosities, work, up to the organization of public events, such as the Festival of Paesology in Aliano.
In the foreground the smells of the paternal inn, a childhood on twilight of the disease and the mother's anxiety and, again, the fear of death; continuing with Arminio as a father, teacher, photographer; then the “civic” poet, countryman, who opens up to the “surroundings”, to intensity, to the network, to success, to the sacred, remaining a misanthrope, but professing the “new humanism” of the mountains. D’Alessio, in a deeply light balance and with a biographical approach, also enters his writing, in the “Readings” section, which ties the facts of a wandering life to the lyric, to the poetry, to the metaphors...