shooting star —
a wish,
a stab at the black
dust on the piano —
the sun
arranges time
finger on the trigger —
peace,
the other choice
Pixels
Red Moon Press, 2021
English translations by Jim Kacian
For about a century, Japanese poets have been opening up traditional haiku to new social, cultural, and political-economic themes, giving rise to modern haiku. Over the decades, innumerable formal and content transformations have been introduced. Nowadays, the American publishing house Red Moon Press has a particular focus on the appreciation of these changes.
Pixels, the first full collection of the author’s poetry, fits perfectly into this context. The work contains seventy free-form haiku in Italian, translated into English by the American haiku poet Jim Kacian.
Transfert
Streetlib, 2017
"Simone Pansolin has chosen a challenging title for this collection of his poems. A polysemic word, which suggests multiple meanings, from the one more strictly connected to the psychoanalytic technique and practice to those that refer to any operation of transfer that we can undertake in the artistic, literary, poetic, musical, philosophical, mythological, anthropological, environmental or social field. The basic meaning from which one can start, in order to then discover all the extensions and ramifications of the discourse around it, remains that of transfer, from one subject to another, from one object to another, from the real world to the imaginary world, from presence to memory, from the present to the future."
«Pixels is a collection of precious poetic gemstones that come together as if encrusted on a royal jewel one after the other and page after page.»
— A. Sacco, "Poesia del Nostro Tempo"
«Compositions too beautiful, of terrible truth, to make you shiver.»
— F. Russo, "Culture and Perspectives"
«In his book Pixels, Simone Pansolin dives straight into the heart of human existence. His poetry is raw and laid bare, but never defenceless, as it cuts sharply through like few others’ do.»
— S. d’Andrea
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Italian Poetry and Music
Simone Pansolin, Luca Cenisi, Toni Piccini, Valeria Simonova - Cecon, Paola Martino, Giovanna Restuccia.
Music by Simone Fontanelli composed on haiku taken from "Pixels" by Simone Pansolin.
Musical performances by Antonella Bini (flutes).
Host: Elena Capra
Haiku Translations
la noche en la ciudad:
el hormigón de los edificios
y de la luna
വെളുപ്പ്; കറുപ്പ്:
വാക്കുകൾ
വസ്തുക്കളിൽ കുടുങ്ങിപ്പോയവ
صمت:
الصلاة الوحيدة
المسموعة.
もう愛してないわ
きみの目には
次の無限
вболівальники на стадіоні:
багато вдарів ногами
без м'яча
എല്ലായിടത്തും
എന്റെ നിഴൽ -
ഇരുട്ടിലായത്
行く雲は
形（なり）を残さず
в алмазе
рудник –
хайку