Cristina Ali Farah

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اللغة: الايطالية
الترجمات: الألمانية ([Sie kommt in Sandalen heute morgen...]), اليونانية ((ΜΕ ΤΟ ΓΑΛΑ))

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Viene in sandali stamani
contro spine e rocce infide per caviglie delicate
stretto in seno la tua mamma porta burro e carne secca
Sulla via la vecchia acacia, si riposa alla sua ombra
Non tacere mia creatura
sta venendo a liberare la tua lingua intorpidita
Ora amore sta vagando
tra le aiuole e i marciapiedi
si riposa sull’asfalto, mentre cerca la tua voce
Ma le sfugge dalla bocca, scivolando tra i canini

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Bevo succo di cammella
scorre a fiotti dalla gola bianco denso come inchiostro
Stretta in pugno la mia spada, taglio d'agave foglie e lamine
per avere fibra abbondante.
Non disfare la mia trama, fuoco e fumo i suoi ricami
Madre mia, sono il tuo miele
la mia voce ti consoli e lambisca la tua pena
Verso liquidi latte e lacrime sopra juta e stoffa vergine
Ho ingannato il carceriere e ingoiato la sua lingua
Burro sciolto carne e sangue per scolpire il mio sgomento

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© Cristina Ali Farah
الإنتاج المسموع: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin 2011

Cristina Ali Farah

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* 29.05.1973, Verona, ايطاليا
يعيش في: Rom, ايطاليا
Cristina Ali Farah is is the daughter of a Somali father and an Italian mother. She grew up in Mogadishu and emigrated with her family in 1991 because of the civil war. After spending several years in Hungary, she has now been living in Rome since the mid-1990s.

Christina Ali Farah‘s poetry is intercultural, drawing on, among other things, her first encounters with the poetry of Somalia, where the oral tradition is still the main method for disseminating poetry today. This focus on orality is also inherent in her performances, which sometimes verge on Spoken Word. In some of her poems Farah mixes Italian and Somali to make a bilingual weave of sound. Her texts, whether prose or poetry, frequently deal with the topic of migration.

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As well as being a writer, Cristina Ali Farah also teaches Somali language and literature at the University of Rome and writes for journals such as Internazionale and the Vogue Black Blog.

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