The House Is Past Poems 1978–1998

The House Is Past brings together writing from a period spanning 1978-1998. It is the compilation of a portion of a life spent in a language that is borrowed and adapted, the document of an instance of cultural transition and transformation. The poetic trajectory is not simply linear and transformative, because Pasquale Verdicchio engages a variety of forms and manipulates language towards the integration of many cultural sources. The tide of the collection, reminiscent of Adorno, is a reflection on this possibility of working in tandem between languages and cultures, between histories and existences. The House is Past refers to the house as both a place of historical reference and historical loss. The past is a point of departure and reference, and the house a flexible construct, the materials of which are assembled according to the poet's cultural needs.

From Moving Landscape

Red-Winged Blackbird

9

(1)

Letter

10

(1)

Imperfect Shadows

11

(1)

Barcelona

12

(1)

Ancestors

13

(1)

Woman at the Well

14

(1)

Ritual

15

(1)

Mario Fallani's Icarus

15

(1)

Coelacanth

16

(1)

Artaud and Nobody

17

(1)

A City

18

(1)

Moving Landscape

19

(4)

From Ipsissima verba

The Cutting Edge

23

(2)

Moving East

25

(1)

Slower than the Vision

25

(1)

Note to Ludwig W.

26

(1)

This House, That House

27

(2)

B

29

(1)

C

30

(1)

From Isthmus

Feuilletons

31

(6)

Subtitles for H2O

37

(7)

The Visible Man

44

(7)

The Culpability of Dissimulation

51

(3)

From Nomadic Trajectory

Branta canadensis

54

(1)

Removing Depth

55

(1)

Ariadne: Come and Gone

56

(1)

Parthenope

57

(5)

Parables

62

(4)

The Leaving

66

(2)

Winter Insect, Summer Grass

68

(5)

Between the Desert

73

(3)

Encampment

76

(2)

Oasis

78

(3)

Within Landmarks

81

(5)

The Arsonist

86

(15)

From The Posthumous Poet

Fragmenta

101

(2)

What Are Clouds?

103

(2)

From Approaches to Absence

Consumerism

105

(2)

Incomplete Sealines

107

(1)

Icons

108

(1)

Gregorian

109

(1)

Fact/Confession

110

(1)

Errors

111

(1)

Nothing Can Be Done

112

(1)

Periplus

112

(1)

Oblique Carry Too

113

(1)

Impossible Saints

114

(2)

Positions for Invisibility

116

(1)

A Critical Geography

117

(6)

Communication Called Passage

123

(6)

Crossing Ice

129

(2)

Glassed Over

131

(2)

Beuys in Italy

133

(3)

Terra Mara

Casualties of Memory

136

(1)

Abitino

137

(1)

Baptism

138

(1)

Mara Moving through the House

138

(1)

Spatial Dive

139

(1)

The Corner of My Eye

140

(1)

Twelve Tim

141

(2)

An Alphabet Elsewhere

143

(1)

Relative Positions

144

(2)

Surrounding Landscape

146

(1)

Male Diction

The Swimmer

147

(2)

Singular Thieves

149

(2)

Animals in Danger

151

(1)

Notes from a Troubled World

152

(1)

A Book of Two Memories

153

(4)

Piscina mirabilis

157

(5)

Postscript

162

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