Luke Ariano

Luca Ariano (Mortara – PV 1979) lives in Parma. Editor-in-chief of Atelier and Versante Ripido, he directs the Poesialab collection at Bertoni publishing house and organizes readings and events. In poetry, in addition to participating in anthologies, he has published 8 collections, including: Contratto a finis (Farepoesia 2010, Qudu 2018), Avvento in Febbraio (Folli ed. 2021) from which the poems presented here are taken, and La Memoria dei senza nome (Il Leggio Editore, 2021). His poems have been translated into several languages, including French, Spanish, and Romanian. He has been published in France in the anthology Plus de cent frontières (ed. PVST, 2023), and in the journals Voix and Recours au poème. Photo credit: Dino Ignani


Poems selected and translated by Marilyne Bertoncini Afterword by Raphael Monticelli ​"Reading and rereading Luca Ariano, you are amazed and moved. An unexpected emotion: the one that suddenly arises from the simple unfolding of days, from a banal situation experienced a thousand times, from a landscape you thought you knew, from a memory nestled in a hollow of memory, seeing, living and finally reliving for the first time what you thought you had already read, already seen, already lived." Raphaël Monticelli (extract from the afterword) Publication date: February 1, 2025 Order Press release