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Poetry of Cities of Literature. Giancarlo Consonni

We continue our journey through the poetry of the Italian City of Literature — Milano City of Literature.
Continuing our exploration of poetic Milan, today we invite you to discover the poetry of Giancarlo Consonni.
Giancarlo Consonni (Milan, 1943) is a poet, artist, historian, and urbanist, and an honorary professor of urban planning at the Polytechnic University of Milan. He is the author of the poetry collections: Viridarium (Scheiwiller, 1987), In breve volo (Scheiwiller, 1994), Vûs (Einaudi, 1997), Luí (Einaudi, 2003), Filovia (Einaudi, 2016), Pinoli (Einaudi, 2021), and Il conforto dell’ombra (Einaudi, 2025).
Let us listen to Se tu fossi fiore performed by the author:


“If you were a flower”
If you were a flowerI’d be a butterfly,if you were a waveI’d be the foam,if you were a breezeI’d be a leaf,if you were a riverI’d be the river mouth,if you were a roofI’d be the gutter,if you were a voiceI’d be the echo,if you were a robinI’d be a berry a larva a worm,if you were a spriteI’d be a Farfarello,if you were a larkI’d be the sky,if you were silence,I’d be a song.
*In the original: Farfarello (Italian: Farfarello) — a winged demon featured in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and in several other works.


The project was created by the Odesa UNESCO City of Literature and being implemented with funds raised by Reykjavik City of Literature Reykjavík Bókmenntaborg UNESCO as part of the readings initiated by Milano City of Literature “Not Just Words” (Reading for Odesa) on February 24, 2024.

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