“When Astronomy meets Poetry”

Biography:

Flavio B. vacchetta was born in Bene Vagienna (Cuneo) where he lives and works.
He has published several collections of poetry: In the sign of Libra 2000), Silent sundial (2001, foreword by F. Piccinelli), Sources (2002), Universe Tramp (2003), half (2005, preface by M.Della Ferrera) Akeldamà (2009, foreword by G. and M. Barberi Squarotti Della Ferrera)
Vacchetta is present in numerous literary anthologies: Anthology of contemporary poets (Penna d’Autore), New declinations (Editions Joker), Tree of aphorisms (Lietocolle).
Fond of Astronomy founded The Gruppo Astrofili Benesi  and collaborates with the UAI (Union
Italian  Astronomy)  The combination of astronomy and poetry is found in a recent photo exhibition and a DVD, he edited and dedicated to astropoetry.

 

Critical comment:

The notebook (of the poetry) of  Flavio B. Vacchetta is Life, “ex professo”, spelling from alpha to omega.
A "vocalise" where everything is possible and with-sound conversion of projecting images in "jokes" (etymologically understood as "rebels") brushstrokes of tragikòs hailed as one of the many dimensions of Man without this delay there weeping and self-pitying its status.
The poetic plot of singular originality, evokes stories that transmute into sarcastic re-creations of the world, better say of about that unus-"versus" to form a whole, the Whole of refraction of Time without the possibility of reflections that are not those amplified and "lying" on Infinite only to dilate the provisional and uncertain response to the question provocative and irritating: from the day you are born / begin to die / the Universe belongs to you / as a necklace around neck / and sundial that calculates your days / delivers them to time for the corrections.
In short, as the extension of the poems, the joyful fragrance of language, drawing in particular in the section where the female figure breaks an eroticism festive with the same force of the explosion of the word vehiculum of "Cries and Whispers" that converge in the polarization of the ego "raised" in A(E)STROVERSI (extroverted).
Finally, the title of the collection: Akeldamà (Field of Blood): dissonance only apparent in the joy of poetic of Vacchetta, or, if you will, "gnashing of teeth" that would steer the "betrayal" by the Man "present" to Nature and Beauty savabled in spes and Beauty of which that earthly, physical, corruptible is unforgettably effigy and painting: Light is your love / magma cold / dissolved living / but beautiful and much.
(Comment byCristina Raddavero)

The poems:

 


Alchemy

In the morning love
ha  the scent of evening
down there are working
in sleeves of underwear
the moss - my dear -
is a panel velvet
throughout the heavenly city
Babylonian workers
have lovers near the British crown
The shepherds of flocks
have the brandy to rest
at pasture grazing grass
and refreshed with mushrooms gratin
of the time that fall in love
and we  patiently forget
the beauty of the sky
that reach the veins
the grasslands with buzzing flies
if something I like is the rain
that burns me the sound
who frequents the salons of fruit
sleeping with rust mixed
So by mutual agreement
I mix sun and eternity.


Uni (co)verso Universe (Sole verse)


From Universe we expect
A one sole verse
different
at sanmarco restaurant
a lot of squid
(I have in front)
speak for themselves
in taste
I do not know what to swallow
probably too much.


The path

I walk and I get emotional
Established in the fog
-There is nothing there-
Only the love of mother
Yes that's a benese?
No,  that is yes even a little 'craft
I walk again and again I get emotional
Where can I find utility?
Fallen in love by  the beauty of the world
Here's what you need more than the friend of life
Do you realize that everything is perfect?
Even eternity.

*

A few days she is more beautiful
With the blue in the eyes and green shirt
Embroidered by hope balsamic
She is motionless, at the tram stop
On the sidewalk pavement and dreams kisses
Look at the faces of all
Mix love every morning
She asks us whether we know her.

 

A (E) StRoversi (extroverted)

6
From the day you are born
you begin to die
the universe belongs to you
as a necklace around neck
and sundial that calculates your days
delivers them to the time for corrections

Da premio "Turoldo 2012"

VISITA ALL'INFERNO

Mi dicono: la diagnosi della sua signora varia
da adenoma ipofisario ad estesioneuroblastoma
come dici?
Mi viene in mente una corda da legare
all'abete nella sera tarda.
Perire di spada non mi garba
parlare di lingua è un trasporto
grave e secco.
S'accende una luce in me
m'illumina una prudenza
chi dite che io sia?

Il Flavio di "Turoldo" diagnostica il male fisico agostiniano biografando la malattia, umanizzandola in versi talmente consueti da divenire lirismo eccezionale nella mano di Anna,  in un matrimonio surreale, in un ringraziamento firmato con la bava, striscia iridescente di giorni in cui non c'è scarto tra incubo, sogno, realtà.

Flavio Vacchetta trasfigura messaggi in cui speranza e di-sperazione sembrano cercarsi nell'amplesso giocoso di parole colme di vita al punto da spogliarle e disarmarle ad un tempo della loro beffarda potenza. E' la grande "miseria" dell'uomo in cui il poeta affonda la sua penna vestita di un'anima "versata" a stento tra dita rattrappite al sapore di funghi porcini, restituite in umiltà alla terra perché si innalzino al cielo in preghiera di ossigeno eterno.


(Commento postato da Crisitna Raddavero 3 febbraio 2012)

 

 

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