Site: Fontana dell’Acqua Paola, Rome, Italy
May 21, 2007
Text: “Lontano” from Poesie (1974-1992) by Patrizia Cavalli, copyright © 1992 Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a., Torino. Used by permission of the publisher.
Projection: FX Productions; Charles Passarelli
Photo: Attilio Maranzano
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Site: Fontana dell’Acqua Paola, Rome, Italy
May 21, 2007
Text: “Blur” from Middle Earth by Henri Cole. Copyright © 2003 by the author. Used by/reprinted with permission from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Italian translation, “Indistinto,” by Massimo Bacigalupo.
Projection: FX Productions; Charles Passarelli
Photo: Attilio Maranzano
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Site: American Academy, Rome, Italy
May 21, 2007
Text: “In Praise of Feeling Bad about Yourself” from View with a Grain of Sand by Wisława Szymborska, copyright © 1993 by the author. English translation by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh, copyright © 1995 by Harcourt, Inc. Used/reprinted with permission of the author.
Projection: FX Productions; Charles Passarelli
Photo: Attilio Maranzano
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Site: Piazza Tevere, Rome, Italy
May 22, 2007
Text: “Some People” from Poems New and Collected: 1957–1997 by Wisława Szymborska. English translation by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh, copyright © 1998 by Harcourt, Inc. Used/reprinted with permission of the author.
Projection: FX Productions; Charles Passarelli
Photo: Attilio Maranzano
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Site: Piazza Tevere, Rome, Italy
May 22, 2007
Text: “Happiness” from Talking to My Body by Anna Swir. English translation by Czesław Miłosz and Leonard Nathan, copyright © 1996 by Czesław Miłosz and Leonard Nathan. Used/reprinted with permission of Copper Canyon Press.; “Down There” from Selected Poems by Eugenio Montale. English translation by Jonathan Galassi, Charles Wright and David Young, copyright © 2004 by Oberlin College Press. Used/reprinted with permission of Oberlin College Press.
Projection: FX Productions; Charles Passarelli
Photo: Attilio Maranzano
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Site: Piazza Tevere, Rome, Italy
May 22, 2007
Text: “In My Life, On My Life” from Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai, copyright © 2000 by the author. English translation by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld, copyright © 2000 by the translators. Used/reprinted with permission of the Estate of Yehuda Amichai.
Projection: FX Productions; Charles Passarelli
Photo: Attilio Maranzano
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Site: Teatro di Marcello, Rome, Italy
May 23, 2007
Text: “Self-Portrait as Four Styles of Pompeian Wall-Painting” from The Visible Man by Henri Cole, copyright © 2005 by the author. Used by/reprinted with permission from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
Projection: FX Productions; Charles Passarelli
Photo: Attilio Maranzano
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Site: Teatro di Marcello, Rome, Italy
May 23, 2007
Text: “La fine e l’inizio” from Vista con granello di sabbia by Wisława Szymborska. Italian translation by Pietro Marchesani, copyright © 1998 by Adelphi Edizioni S.p.A. Used by permission of the publisher.
Projection: FX Productions; Charles Passarelli
Photo: Attilio Maranzano
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Site: Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome, Italy
May 24, 2007
Text: “XIII” from Notti di pace occidentale by Antonella Anedda, copyright © 1999 by Donzelli, Roma. Used by permission of the publisher.
Projection: FX Productions; Charles Passarelli
Photo: Attilio Maranzano
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Site: Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome, Italy
May 24, 2007
Text: “Blur” from Middle Earth by Henri Cole, copyright © 2003 by the author. Used by/reprinted with permission from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Italian translation, “Indistinto,” by Massimo Bacigalupo.
Projection: FX Productions; Charles Passarelli
Photo: Attilio Maranzano
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Site: Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome, Italy
May 27, 2007
Text: “He Embraces His Murderer” from Unfortunately, It Was Paradise by Mahmoud Darwish, copyright © 2003 by the Regents of the University of California. Used/reprinted with permission of the University of California Press.
Projection: FX Productions; Charles Passarelli
Photo: Attilio Maranzano
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