All melancholy of America is in Hopper’s paintings and Strand lyrics

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The melancholy of America is all in the paintings of Edward Hopper and in the lyrics of Mark Strand. Consequently, Born from a Jewish family in Canada but raised in the United States. For all melancholy america hopper’s paintings example, Strand taught Literature at Columbia University: in 1990 he was appointed graduate poet, while in 1999 he received the Pulitzer prize thanks to the Blizzard of One collection. Similarly, The Mondadori mirror now welcomes the full -bodied volume in the necklace all the poems (translation by Damiano Abeni with Moira Egan) who gathered texts to sleep with an open eye (1964) with almost invisible (2012). Similarly, with two fundamental prose such as the alphabet of a poet and notes on the profession of poetry.

Forty -eight years of writing passed between cohesive. In addition, dry and other more airy compositions, prosmeters and touches of black humor, surrealism and expressive simplicity, dreamlike and silence. Moreover, Do they tell us something about today’s United States? Therefore, Maybe yes. Nevertheless, Strand’s lachers tell the humorality, fragmentation, twilight landscape, desire. But they do it with an almost obsessive composure. giving the reader the impression all melancholy america hopper’s paintings of being in the face of controlled anxiety. Inhabited by the thought of death as a source of inspiration. Strand is an intimately postmodern poet, like the American colleagues (and not) of his generation: but in a different way. Hysterical realism, alienation and uprooting act in him with a sense of shape and sober, moderate abstraction.

What he said to Hopper (in Edward Hopper. A poet reads a painter. translation by Damiano Abeni and Moira Egan, Donzelli 2016) is true for him): “In Hopper’s paintings to happen are the things that have to do with the wait. Hopper people seem not to have no occupations of any kind. They are like characters abandoned by their scripts who now. trapped in the space of their expectation, must keep themselves company by themselves, without a clear destination, without a future “.

Lover of Dante. Italian culture, of Rilke and Virgil, versatile, self all melancholy america hopper’s paintings -deprecating author, attracted by the “sum otherness” of Zenit, Strand has particularly given voice to the absence as a propellant of reality, a “something that provides a gap” to be filled. Here is his best known, real manifesto of poetics: “In a field / I am the absence / of the field. / E / always so. / Wherever I am / I am what I miss. Additionally, / When I walk / divide the air /. always / the air refuge / to fill the spaces / in which it had been my body. / We all have reasons / to move. / I move / to keep things together”. Furthermore, (It seems that this poem was written in twenty seconds during a game of cards.) Walking in the verses of Strand we find a lot of wind. trains and farms, a mirror, the harshness of the Utah, the all melancholy america hopper’s paintings ocean and lakes, the ade, the garden: each object seems to talk to us about a joy, assumed by the difficulty of the joy of writing.

Perhaps the hope of immortality or the aculeo of nostalgia. “I remember as a young man. when the twilight left the way to darkness I lost myself among the yellow stars of the jasmine. And I was drifting in a voluptuous version of the galaxy. more and further away, away, that was joy, that was joy, that drift”.