Cristina Ali Farah

[sono noci che non si sciolgono...]

Idioma: italiano

Traducciones: alemán ([Nüsse sind sie die nicht aufplatzen...]), griego ([ΕΙΝΑΙ ΚΑΡΠΟΙ ΠΟΥ ΔΕΝ ΛΙΩΝΟΥΝ…])

[sono noci che non si sciolgono...]

sono noci che non si sciolgono
le tue parole, groppi in gola
che prolungano contese e liti

Attraversato il mare, troverai solo
biscotti e frutta
ove si ergeva il tuo obelisco

Io raccoglierò fiori di schiuma sulla battigia
bianchi e rigidi come ossa e mura
Fai che non mi portino il corpo tuo smembrato
monolite circoncisa, testa torace tibia

resta una cicatrice, aperta nel cemento
tracciata e cancellata di fronte alle colonie
la stele nella stiva, il mare brulicante

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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