“Fontana Square. Poetry does not forget”, discussed at Universo Salute – BisceglieLive.it

On Thursday 25 April, in the conference room of Universo Salute, a conference entitled Piazza Fontana will take place. Poetry does not forget. The initiative is organized by the Readers’ Club – Book Presidium of Bisceglie in collaboration with Universo salute Opera don Uva.

The ANPI Bisceglie, the local Italian Mazzini Association, Speaksi English school of Corato, Nicotel Bisceglie, Club for UNESCO Bisceglie and the municipality of Bisceglie took part in the event.

• The opportunity to think about Resistance is given by the book Piazza Fontana, which will be presented by:
• prof. Angelo Gaccione, curator
• prof. Giuseppe Langella Unicatt
• Dr. Zaccaria Gallo, partisan of culture
• The lawyer will also speak. Elisabetta Mastrototaro municipal councilor

Card of the poetic anthology “Piazza Fontana. Poetry does not forget”

The volume is made up of 42 authors, some of the greatest of the twentieth century. There are deceased poets (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Julian Beck, Giovanni Raboni, Roberto Sanesi, to name a few), and there are prominent living poets (Oldani, Fiori, Consonni, Tonon, Sthen, Guarracino, and so on) . An articulated and complex choir of voices that reaches our hearts through the poetic word. Verses that excite us, pain us, outrage us, but at the same time make us more aware of our conscience as citizens and of everyone’s duty in defense of democracy, freedom, peace, life.

What happened in Piazza Fontana on 12 December 1969 represents one of the most dramatic moments in post-war history. That event certainly wrote the most painful and darkest pages of our country. All that blood was the prelude to an authoritarian shift, and it came close to resulting in a coup d’état. Forty-two poets wanted to combine their creative art with that of other expressive forms: narrative, non-fiction, theatre, cinema, figurative arts, music, photography, etc. so that it is not forgotten and the memory remains vigilant. Ultimately this is the task of a poet, of an artist. A research that fills a void and makes public how even the voice of the poets has not been absent in this work of testimony and memory.

Introduced by judge Guido Salvini, the volume is enriched by the testimonies of the lawyer Federico Sinicato, president of the Committee of the families of the victims of Piazza Fontana, of the provincial president of the Anpi Roberto Cenati, of one of Giuseppe Pinelli’s daughters.