{"id":1639,"date":"2013-11-10T14:42:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T14:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heinzbaumann.com\/photoblog\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2025-06-29T12:47:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T12:47:43","slug":"1639","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heinzbaumann.com\/photoblog\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"In memory of Giorgio Orelli (1921-2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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DEAD BLACKBIRD (it. MERLO)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swiss\/Italian literature has lost a unique and much loved voice, with the death of Swiss poet Giorgio Orelli, at the age of 92.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following a poem, of which he says that it is one of his favorite and very own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Certo d\u2019un merlo il nero …]<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

et gi\u00e0 di l\u00e0 dal rio passato \u00e8 ‘l merlo
\ndeh, venite a vederlo.<\/i>
\n(Petrarca, CV, 21 sg.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certo d’un merlo il nero
\nmazzo di fiori d’un rosso
\nsorpreso dalla morte
\nnel breve buio d’un sottopassaggio
\nl’indomani farfalla
\nenorme d’un nero
\npunteggiato di rosso
\nnessuna traccia del giallo aranciato
\nil terzo giorno crosta
\nsfaldantesi in squame
\neczema dell’asfalto il quarto
\ngirasole dai petali rari
\nraschietti di spazzacamino
\nmai scomparso
\ncos\u00ec che di sull’orlo
\npi\u00f9 d’una nuova pot\u00e8 raccontarmi
\nlo spazzino-necroforo
\nesperto solo di trasmutazioni
\nrapide
\ne in un mattino
\npareva lentamente incenerirsi
\nma nei fiati di nebbia del ritorno
\nancora suppurava
\ntoccati di bianco volani andavan variando
\nprotesi verso piogge
\nsottili, gi\u00e0 primaverili
\nditelo ai merli sui marmi invernali
\nprima che i fiori del diavolo
\nmoltiplichino il becco
\ndelirino azalee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He speaks in this poem of a dead blackbird, which was crushed in the street and there westernized slowly. He commented as follows: “These transformations, this ever-changing race towards immortality, this always changing illusion of immortality, this dying and non-dying, this continuation of the remains, this is a great topic (…)”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More Poems (English translation) can be found here<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DEAD BLACKBIRD (it. MERLO) Swiss\/Italian literature has lost a unique and much loved voice, with the death of Swiss poet Giorgio Orelli, at the age of 92. Following a poem, of which he says that it is one of his favorite and very own. [Certo d\u2019un merlo il nero …] et gi\u00e0 di l\u00e0 dal rio … <\/p>\n

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