from ''Le case della Vetra'', Mondadori, Milan, 1996"},"2":{"wt":"\n...Yes, ''Naviglio'' is near, and was more mist-shrouded\nbefore its shingle, and the square\nfull of acetylene-lighted stalls, black pans\nfor roast chestnuts, and nail\nand crockery swallowers\nit wasn’t good to come there\nwith your girlfriend.\nBut so as they have done,\nto destroy buildings,\nto destroy quarters, here and elsewhere\n''(Vetra, Fiori Chiari, Bottonuto)''\nwhat’s the reason?[...]"}},"i":0}}]}" id="mwOg">In 1961 he published two short poetry collections, Il catalogo è questo and L'insalubrità dell'aria, followed by Le case della Vetra in 1966, Cadenza d'inganno in 1975, Nel grave sogno in 1982 and, in 1988, the anthology A tanto caro sangue. In the 1970s he began editing the poetry series "I quaderni della Fenice" for Guanda publishing house, acting as a kind of talent scout for new poets. Milan (especially the memory of the old city, before the recent town plannings) is at the heart of his matters:
...e sì, il Naviglio è a due passi, la nebbia era più forte | ...Yes, Naviglio is near, and was more mist-shrouded |
—Giovanni Raboni, from Le case della Vetra, Mondadori, Milan, 1996 |
In June 1971 he was one of the 800 intellectuals who signed, in L'Espresso magazine, a manifesto against Luigi Calabresi, a police officer falsely suspected of having killed the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli. In October he was among those who signed a "self-denunciation", to express solidarity with some journalists of Lotta Continua newspaper, defending their strong anti-government positions. [2] [3]
Among his literary critic essays are Poesia degli anni sessanta (Poetry of the 1960s) published in 1968, Quaderno in prosa in 1981. La fossa di Cherubino (1980) collects his proses.
Raboni was interested in theater too: was in the directorial committee of Piccolo Teatro di Milano and wrote several plays, such as Alcesti o la recita dell'esilio and Rappresentazione della croce (2000). His activity as a poet went on with Canzonette mortali (1987), Versi guerrieri e amorosi (1990), Ogni terzo pensiero (1993, with which he won the Viareggio Prize for poetry [4] ), Quare tristis (1998), and Barlumi di Storia (2002).
Giovanni Raboni died of a heart attack in Fontanellato in 2004 [5] . He is buried at the Monumental Cemetery of Milan.
His wife, poet Patrizia Valduga, wrote the afterword to his last poetry collection Ultimi versi, published posthumously in 2006; one of his last poems is "Canzone del danno e della beffa" ("Song of the harm and the hoax"), also published posthumously on Corriere della Sera in 2004. [6]
Andrea Cortellessa, in an article of Manifesto in the days after his death, remembers the poet's "obsessive mournful compulsion on his last poetic verses", with these significant lines from Quare tristis: "Who dreams himself / alive with his own dead / maybe he doesn't live also there /in his dream,/ and you must let him lie – not still /wake up, not until // out, in the light, remains that squeaky / burden, that blinding plate…". [7]
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