An Inter­view with Alessio Zanelli

Posted on: September 4, 2008

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Alan Cork­ish inter­views Alessio Zanelli … You can visit the Erbacce Poetry Jour­nal here.


Alan: Hy Alessio and wel­come to erbacce … I just typed into google the words ‘Alessio Zanelli poet’ and got swamped with hits, I gave up count­ing how many hits after I reached the 200 mark. Most of what I got is detail about your work, where you live in Italy, how Eng­lish is your adopted lit­er­ary tongue etc., but what erbacce read­ers really want to know is about you, as a human-​​​​being, as a polit­i­cal ani­mal, as a man of ideas; tell me about the real Alessio Zanelli …

Alessio: The ‘real’ me is a sim­ple man quite absorbed in his lit­tle world, but very atten­tive and sen­si­tive to every­thing hap­pen­ing out­side its lim­ited bound­aries. From some per­spec­tive, it would be won­der­ful to be able to live com­pletely iso­lated, but it would also be…

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