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Giampietro Pontiggia (born 7 April 1927), (pen name Giampiero Neri), is an Italian poet. He is notable for his novel style. Pontiggia's work is known for its concise, dry, and unembellished style, and veined with melancholy and humor. His work is often written in prose.

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Biography

Neri was born in Erba, Como.

Giampiero Neri grew up during World War II, in which he lost members of his family.[1] His younger sister committed suicide in her twenties.[2] He began publishing poetry in the 1960s, influenced by his younger brother (but more known at that time) - Giuseppe Pontiggia.[3] He was soon recognized as a major exponent of the Milanese school of poetry.[4] His poems were often themed around the experiences during the war. He was one of the first in Italy to use a poetical prose as poetry[5] (likely influenced by the descriptive narratives by Vittorio Sereni[6]) and has been called "a master of poetry in Italian prose".[7] In 1948 he moved with his family to Milan, where he continued to work in a bank for forty years before his retirement.[8] In 2020 he adheres[9] at the Empathic Movement (Empathism)[10] arose in the same year in the South of Italy.[11] In 2019 he received the Cilento Poetry Prize for his brilliant carrier.[12]

Selected works

• L'aspetto occidentale del vestito (Guanda: 1976) ASIN B00I52X4E4
• Liceo (Guanda: 1986) ISBN 8877462396
• Dallo stesso luogo (Coliseum: 1992) ISBN 978-8877640253
• Teatro naturale (Mondadori: 1998) ISBN 978-8804436225
• Erbario con figure (LietoColle: 2000) ISBN 8878480673
• Finale (Dialogolibri: 2002)
• Armi e mestieri (Mondadori: 2004) ISBN 978-8804529385
• Piano d'erba (Quaderni di Orfeo: 2005)
• Di questi boschi (Quaderni di Orfeo: 2007)
• Paesaggi inospiti (Mondadori: 2009) ISBN 978-8804588153
• Il professor Fumagalli e altre figure (Mondadori: 2012) ISBN 978-8804621669
• Via provinciale (Garzanti: 2017) ISBN 978-8811672449
• Non ci saremmo più rivisti. Antologia personale (Interlinea edizioni: 2018) ISBN 978-8868571795

Bibliography

• Daniela Marcheschi, La natura e la storia. Quattro scritti per Giampiero Neri (Le Lettere: 2002) ISBN 978-8871666792
• Vincenzo Pezzella (edited by), Giampiero Neri. Poesie e immagini (Viennepierre: 2005)
• Pietro Berra, Giampiero Neri. Il poeta architettonico (Dialogolibri: 2005)
• Victoria Surliuga, Uno sguardo sulla realtà. La poesia di Giampiero Neri (Joker: 2005) ISBN 8875360316
• Elisabetta Motta "Degli animali. Viaggio nel bestiario di Giampiero Neri (Cartacanta: 2018) ISBN 8885568343
• Enzo Rega, in Dizionario critico della poesia italiana 1945-2020 (Società Editrice Fiorentina: 2021)

Further reading

• "Giampiero Neri, il poeta in ombra". www.ilfoglio.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-11-24.
• "Giampiero Neri, "Da un paese vicino"". Poesia, di Luigia Sorrentino (in Italian). 2020-11-18. Retrieved 2021-11-24.
• "Il poeta. Tutto in una piazza: il mondo piccolo di Giampiero Neri". www.avvenire.it (in Italian). 2021-06-08. Retrieved 2021-11-24.
• "Oggi, ore 19: Diretta Facebook sul libro di Giampiero Neri "Piazza Libia", a cura di Alessandro Rivali e Filippo Tuena". poesia.corriere.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-11-24.
• "From along the country's main road (poem) - Giampiero Neri - Italy - Poetry International". www.poetryinternational.org. Retrieved 2021-11-24.
• Romani, Martha Cooley and Antonio. "The Thoughtful Traveler: On Giampiero Neri's Poetry". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 2021-11-24.
• English translation of poems
• "Selected poems translated into English". www.chelseaeditionsbooks.org. Retrieved 2021-11-24.
• Surliuga, Victoria (2007). "Il naturale e l'umano. La poesia di Giampiero Neri". Forum Italicum. 41 (1): 59–78. doi:10.1177/001458580704100104. ISSN 0014-5858. S2CID 164166510.
• "Italian literature - The end of the century | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2021-11-24.

External links

• Giampiero Neri on "New Manifesto of Arts" at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera

References

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