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Giampiero Neri

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MODEL

One had thought to tame the tiger with smiles.

© Translation: 2011, Ron Banerjee
Publisher: First published on PIW, , 2011

PATROON

Men had gedacht de tijger met glimlachjes te temmen.

© Vertaling: 2011, Ike Cialona
Publisher: 2011, First published on PIW,

MODELLO

Si era pensato di ammansire la tigre con dei sorrisi.

© 1998, Giampiero Neri
From: Teatro naturale
Publisher: Mondadori, Milan

Giampiero Neri

Giampiero Neri

Giampiero Neri (the pseudonym of Giampietro Pontiggia) was born in Erba, in the province of Como, in 1927. He lives in Milan. His life has been marked by tragic events – the death of his father, who was killed when Giampiero was sixteen, the suicide of a sister in her twenties – which appear, however, only indirectly in his poetry. A bank employee, he has cultivated entomological and literary i...

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NATURE

A NOTE FROM 1926

TWO TIMES

FRESHWATER FISH

MIMESIS

BOTANICAL VARIETY

BOREALIS

Of those uncertain shadows

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MODEL

One had thought to tame the tiger with smiles.

© 2011, Ron Banerjee
From: Teatro naturale
Publisher: 2011, First published on PIW, Milan

MODEL

One had thought to tame the tiger with smiles.

© 2011, Ron Banerjee
Publisher: 2011, First published on PIW,

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