Franco Armino comes to Ronco. It will be an important day for the country.
Why do you, a poet, come here?
Because he knows the countries
He knows the stories
Of so many empty houses
Of deserted paths and squares
Of memories of life.
He knows the apparent deaths
Of the many who have given up
To loneliness
To the abandonment
To the abyss of emptiness
He knows how to say it and tell it
And above all it knows how to stir consciences
Whose is left?
And of those who would like to return.
Give voice to the stones
He recognizes the sound
The echo that bounces in the silence
He knows the tears of the past but above all he knows the smile of the present.
KNOWS HOW TO ACTIVELY GENERATE HOPE…..
The Treccani encyclopedia says about him:
Italian poet, writer and director (b. Bisaccia 1960).
Self-defined ‘paesologist‘, he told of the small towns of Italy describing with extreme reality the situation especially in Southern Italy.
Animator of civil battles, he collaborates with various local and national newspapers and has made various documentaries.
He is the inspiration and point of reference for many actions against the depopulation of internal Italy.
Arminio tells the story of today’s Irpinia and the ‘crater’ area, the one hit by the great earthquake of 1980, managing to combine an extraordinary narrative style with civil commitment and psychological investigation.
In recent years he has published many novels and poems with considerable critical success and growing appreciation from readers.
https://www.facebook.com/francoarminio
Thanks to the Municipality of Rónc – Municipality of Ronco Canavese and the Ronco Canavese Library
Franco Arminio in Soana Valley
Umberto I Square – Ronco Canavese
September 14, 2024 – 4:30 p.m.
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