“My poems will change the world” is a docu on the poet Patrizia Cavalli by Annalena Benini and Francesco Piccolo. Presented at Notti Veneziane it will be in theaters from today. Mika, who hosted her on her show on Rai2 (the clip is in the documentary), remembers her like this.
Something absurd happens with poetry. Technically, politically, economically it doesn’t matter at all. It doesn’t move money, it doesn’t change the world. At the same time it is one of the most important things about our society and about our being women and men. I say it without exaggeration, and from my heart I would like to explain it to the new generations: poetry, when it exists, changes everything. It can be found in a concrete way: written, drawn, it can be found in music. Poetry has a line, a rule of beauty and a set of organized emotions that offer meaning to what is around us. In fact, if we start from the principle that the rule of beauty is the only thing that gives rise to the world, we can affirm, without a doubt, that poetry is vital. Poetry is everywhere: in the song, for example, we try to use an almost simple language to provoke it and make it come to light in the whole of the music, the voice, the instrumentation and even the words. This dance, this dance that must happen when there is harmony, when all the elements move and align in the right way, can only offer a poetic and powerful result. Being poetic and powerful, in fact, is what matters most. It’s fundamental. Also for this reason, Patrizia Cavalli was one of the most beautiful discoveries of my life. It happened late, when I began to immerse myself in Italian culture and began to learn about your story. Coming from a classical education, I found myself experiencing curious episodes: I knew all the works of Domenico Scarlatti, composer of baroque music, but I had never heard Fabrizio De Andrè. When I arrived in Italy, I immersed myself in Italian song – as well as Fabrizio De Andrè, Giorgio Gaber, Luigi Tenco and many other artists. Then, taking courage, I also began to enter the world of literature and poetry. My meeting with Patrizia Cavalli on the show Stasera CasaMika was probably one of the nicest things I was able to do with a guest, giving a pop light to poetry. It was surreal, strange, beautiful and also unexpected, almost out of the blue. With that broadcast on Rai I wanted to do two things: I wanted to be poetic and at the same time original. For example, I wanted to host both Bernardo Bertolucci and Patrizia Cavalli. Bertolucci couldn’t be there, Cavalli, however, came. Perhaps this is what Patrizia taught me: the unawareness of poetry. It’s the most important thing, even if you don’t know it. This is its strength: poetry seems like nothing, but when it is there, in reality, everything changes.
2023-09-13 19:32:38
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