Francesca Fini
Rome, Italy
http://www.francescafini.com

Project: HIPPOPOETESS

A story of female creativity, strength and resilience Amy Lowell was an American poet of the Imagist movement, born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on February 9, 1874. I came across her biography about a year ago, absolutely by chance, during a research on women's literature and poetry that I have been carrying on for a long time. The more I was reading about her, the more my interest grew, because many events in her life resonate with the burning issues we are experiencing today, and at the same time I felt very personal dynamics re-echoing. Amy was a rich woman, self-confident, strong and ambitious, rowdy and stubborn, dominated by a single desire: to become a great poet. And so she met the Imagist movement (whose most famous representative was surely Ezra Pound), a literary current born and spread in the USA and the United Kingdom in the early twentieth century, which, breaking with the late romantic poetic tradition, supported the need for a concise and clear poetic language, based on the precision and immediacy of images, objects and things ("no ideas, but in things", as the imagist poet William Carlos Williams used to say). Amy, with all the confidence that came from having an illustrious family behind her (her brother Percival was a famous astronomer, while the other, Abbott Lawrence, was president of Harvard University), but above all thanks to a pugnacious and entrepreneurial attitude that was really the result of her strong personality, took the fate of the movement in her hands and began a very successful promotion and dissemination, organizing public readings and anthological prints, so that scholars agree that the success of poets like Aldington, H.D., John Cournos, R.W.Flint, Allen Upward, John Gould Fletcher, and Ezra Pound himself, is in large part to be attributed to the tireless "marketing" brought forward by Lowell.

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Celia Eid Pierre- Stéphane Meugé
Le Pecq, France
www.celiaeid.com

Project: Punto Agitato

Punto Agitato évolue dans un monde en mouvement, où il n'y a ni espace défini ni temps précis. La trame de l'œuvre est nourrie d'une constante énergie et de gestes hésitants, ambigus et fébriles.

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