Haiku_Where Before There Was Rock

World Poetry Day

For the whole day 21 March the last chapter of the HAIKU project dedicated to rock will be available to view [+]

With roots
he is breaking stones
and guardians of tombs.

And even if our end is certain, we continue to run at breakneck speed in the storm of roses and, no more breathing space for the climb, to climb the forgotten mountains of life.

The re-edition of HAIKU was born from the convergence with the political-cultural assumptions of environmentalist associations and the Nature Restoration Law, Lenz's poetic-performative project originally created by Maria Federica Maestri and Francesco Pititto in 2001 at the Lipu Oasis in Torrile and now revived from the perspective of an ethical theatrical ecosystem, which does not discard the productions of the past, but actively regenerates them, in a virtuous chain of creative flourishes.

The project tends to re-imagine disappeared nature and restore the memory of the lost environment, Through the power of short verses according to the Japanese formula of the haiku dedicated to the sacredness of existence in the animal re-vigorous, vegetable, MINERAL.
Poetry in action acts according to the principle of repair: the damage that man has caused in nature is not limited to the actual destruction of the environment, but it affects the very ability to know/feel ourselves in the whole, part of a plural cosmogony: beings in the multiple. So the regeneration will have to be twofold: repair the loss and rebuild what we have lost 'outside’ and ‘inside’.

The last chapter of the HAIKU project is dedicated to rock, a silent and hard element like the power of Emily Dickinson's verses, Marina Cvetaeva, Antonia Pozzi, Patrizia Cavalli, Thomas S. Eliot, Friedrich Hölderlin and Pier Luigi Bacchini.