Franco arminio tsipras biography

Franco Arminio is a contemporary Italian poet who considers himself a paesologo. The so-called paesologia is a word Arminio invented to refer to the study of the rural communities in the countryside.

He didn’t limit himself to inventing the word, of course.

Franco arminio tsipras biography

The name came after the need to define the art of wandering around the countryside and landscapes and observing them. An art that then became a necessity to save the abandoned villages of the Italian hinterland (paese means, in fact, village).

In Give Way to the Trees, published in 2017 and considered his first real poetry collection, he turns his vision into poetry: in fact, Paesologia represents, in essence, a way of looking, as it is visible in the poem Guarda (Look):

Look.
You are in any place
and a tree reaches you,
a wall, a face.
The centre of the world is not far from you,
it is in the secondary roads, it waits for you
where you don&