Cristina Ali Farah

[Aspetta, lasciami attraversare la soglia...]

Idioma: italiano
Traducciones: alemán ([Warte, laß mich die Schwelle...])

[Aspetta, lasciami attraversare la soglia...]

Aspetta, lasciami attraversare la soglia a occhi chiusi
la sedia del re è vuota, il guanto mostra l’investitura,
il potere è sconnesso
Veli e disveli, sguardo obliquo, ubiquo
Com’è facile, dopo tutto, ingannare alla vista
(nascondi il braccio imputato)
ammaestrare i confini del vuoto

Ho scavato la terra a mani nude per trovare il segreto e quel che resta
di tremila vergini in terracotta,
vene d’acqua, nidi e tombe sotto strati di sabbia e di pelle
Le mie dita disegnano frammenti e specchi,
cancellati dalla memoria

Risalgo i battiti del tempo,
mia madre, la madre di mia madre, matrioske perforate
Datemi una candela perché io possa guardare dentro
e ricomporre la mappa dell’amore nei corpi sconsacrati

© Cristina Ali Farah

Cristina Ali Farah

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* 29.05.1973, Verona, Italia
Vive en: Rom, Italia
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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