Claudio Damiani


Claudio Damiani is an Italian poet. He was born in San Giovanni Rotondo in the south of Italy in 1957 though at an early age, he moved to Rome where he still lives. He made his debut in 1978 in Nuovi Argomenti, the magazine directed by Pasolini, Moravia and Bertolucci. In the first half of the 1980s, he was among the founders of the magazine Braci, where a new classicism was proposed. Inspired by ancient Latin poets and by the Italian Renaissance, his themes are mainly nature and cosmos, with a side attention to current scientific research.
"If the Horatian scenes of Sabina refer to a type of modern Arcadia, their specific quality is above all to approach a voice that is internal and literally poetic, refounded and reguarded like an unexpected and precious gift". His poems have been interpreted by such actors as Nanni Moretti and Piera Degli Esposti. Main prizes and awards: Premio Viareggio, Premio Carducci, Premio Montale, Premio Luzi, Premio Lerici, Premio Volterra, Premio Laurentum, Premio Brancati, Premio Frascati, Premio Alpi Apuane, Premio Camaiore.

Poetry

  • Fraturno
  • La mia casa
  • La miniera
  • Eroi
  • Attorno al fuoco
  • Sognando Li Po
  • Poesie
  • Il fico sulla fortezza
  • Ode al monte Soratte
  • Cieli celesti
  • La vita comune. Poesie e commenti
  • Endimione
  • Prima di nascere
  • Postomeriche
  • Rinascita

    Theatrical texts

  • Il Rapimento di Proserpina, in Prato Pagano, nn. 4-5, Il Melograno, 1987
  • Ninfale, Lepisma, 2013

    Essays

  • Orazio, Arte poetica, con interventi di autori contemporanei
  • Le più belle poesie di Trilussa
  • La difficile facilità. Appunti per un laboratorio di poesia
  • L'era nuova. Pascoli e i poeti di oggi, with Andrea Gareffi,