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2040

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In questa lettera aperta al 2040, Jorie Graham evoca un futuro probabilmente inevitabile. Come una storica o una cartografa, disegna un mondo apocalittico dove la pioggia deve essere tradotta, il silenzio canta più forte delle parole, gli uccelli sono artificiali e l’America come la conosciamo è finita nel 2030. È raro trovare un intero skyline in fiamme e subito dopo la calma per seguire un singolo verme, per sentire respirare il la quindicesima raccolta della poetessa americana ci mostra che è possibile. Con una voce che riflette sulla propria mortalità immersa in un profondo silenzio, nella memoria di un paesaggio scomparso, 2040 non può che renderci sempre più consapevoli della bellezza di questo mondo che potremmo distr



L’esperimento americano finirà nel 2030 disse
guardando le carte,
le mappe, le stelle, la loro matematica, guardando
il palmo delle nostre mani, ovunque sulle nostre
mani, nelle foglie sul
fondo della
tazza vuota – cercando la sua vacuità, i suoi cumuli di
cadaveri

294 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 26, 2025

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Jorie Graham

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Jorie Graham was born in New York City in 1950, the daughter of a journalist and a sculptor. She was raised in Rome, Italy and educated in French schools. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris before attending New York University as an undergraduate, where she studied filmmaking. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa.

Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently: Place (2012), Sea Change (2008), Overlord (2005), Never (2002), Swarm (2001), The Errancy (1997), and The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Her many honors include a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

She has taught at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and is currently the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University. She served as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003.

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