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Italy is mine
... and it owes me a living
Art and Nature, music and literature, animal and human rights, freedom of thought and speech, kindness, culture and education without boundaries.
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Vera da Pozzo, an Italian expat in Paris.
From the Island of the Sun to the Isle of France.
My pseudonym Vera da Pozzo is a pun alluding to what I care about most : truth and loyalty, depth and insight. In my mother tongue, the syntagma "vera da pozzo" means a puteal, but it could be a female name followed by a family name. Water is indispensable for living, and we need to keep it pure and unpolluted; it is the same for truth.
I write in English because I love this language since my childhood and also because English allows me to have a more detached view on both Italy and France. The title of my personal website and blog is a paraphrasis of the verse "England is mine and it owes me a living", from Morrissey's song "Still Ill", released in The Smiths debut album "The Smiths" on 20th February 1984. As Italy had nothing to offer to young people like me, I decided to throw my arms around Paris, as Oscar Wilde did, and I am still here. Like francophone actor Lino Ventura, I am and I will always be Italian.
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From Life to Loss and back: Dermot Bolger's "The Venice Suite"
Last month I went to the Irish Cultural Centre (one of my most favourite places in Paris) and attended a poetry meeting with Dermot...
You were, You are, You will always be here
You should have tried But You were afraid Because Life was too much A serious game to play For your teenage dreams being Taken seriously...
Such a lovely day to be(e) born
This is for You, on your B-Day, My dearest and most Beloved Human Being: Beautiful Mind, Body and Soul, Always Benevolent and Kind With...
... and you, shine, instead.
Among the people I admire the most, I dearly wish I could have met Pier Paolo Pasolini , but he was brutally killed when I was not yet...
Festa della Mamma - Mother's Day
Mamma, You've always been And You are still The most beautiful And bashful Woman I've ever seen: Since I was Just a Child I've ever felt...
Festa del Papà - Father's Day
My very first poem was for You: I wrote it for your name day And You were so glad and proud Of your little, witty daughter; Then they...
Saint Patrick's Day
Per grazia ricevuta. One year ago, on Saint Patrick's Day, On the threshold of the Morning, When the Night was dying And the Dawn wasn't...
Salon de l'Agri-Torture
Paris Expo Porte de Versailles is one of the places I avoid the most in Paris: when I came to Paris, I had to visit it three times with...
International Women's Day
Since 1977, the International Women's Day, promoted by the United Nations, is celebrated every year almost everywhere. In Italy, the...
Michelangelo, the Solitary Titan
As a small child, I was deeply interested in many things and one of my favourite ones was (and still is) figurative art. Being much...
Águas de Março (Waters of March) and Elis Regina
March in Paris has started by two very rainy days, and this makes me think of my favourite bossa nova song: Águas de Março (1972), by...
World Peace is None of Your Business
This is a very old and a really odd world, where peace sounds like a celestial song we will never sing all together, because the human...
Love or Epilepsy? Saint Valentine's Day and liquid modernity.
Saint Valentine's Day is over and everyone is relieved. Ironically, the famous Italian saint and martyr originally was the patron saint...
The World will be saved by Beauty
The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Idiot", 1868-1869. Arcangelo Corelli was born on this...
Peace on Earth to Men and Women of Good Will
In the astounding Cathedral of Palermo, that Oscar Wilde admired just seven months before his death, a group of animal rights activists...
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