Some Thoughts On My Poetry

My poetry is not for sale, it is open to everyone, everyone can read it. I have no mould, nothing in paper, it is all media, all virtual. People do not have to pay me anything, because everything is on the blog, accessible to everyone. It is also within the anarchic spirit of my understanding of culture, it is one hundred per cent accessible worldwide and in all languages. As I understand poetry, as I understand writing, it is like an act of loving free from interests and economic profit. And in the same way, when I express myself through writing, through my verses, I do not commercialise it. For me, poetry and writing, as I understand them, are free from economic speculation, and I allow everyone to read my poetry, at all hours, in all languages, but the main idea is to provide emotions, poetry, critical readings, all for free. I do not speculate, that is, I do not use writing to extract money, I give anyone the possibility to read a poem conceived as a form of free art. Mine is an act of diffusion of my art without involving money, and in my case I perform myself as if I were naked with my poetry. I have a concept of expressing my art and communicating what I truly feel and I do not commercialise my poetry, because I have a vision free also from political regimes, and above all free from editorial and commercial regimes. And even if in the end I gain nothing it is true, but on the other side mine is pure poetry, it is pure art, it is like loving, there is no commercialising of my art and therefore I do not deliberately commercialise my poetry. My literary performance is for those who love poetry, who love verses, free from constraints of publishing and artificial perfection. My literary blog is totally free from economic chains and from any form of constraint and control, because money is control and I see publishing as a dictatorial form of modifying a bold, wild, and rebellious form of art. My poems have never been manipulated to be commercialised and sold. No one and nothing has ever made my poetry appetising and digestible. I want to show and give to the world a form of art that is pure, untouched, free from editions, free from retouches, free from economic and political coercion, which ultimately does not fit into a commercial standard. My blog is a form of literary art that does not adhere to the rules of publishing, nor to contracts. It does not exist for me, when I publish a poem it must be the mirror of my soul, I do not want it to be manipulated by editors, I do not want it to be commercialised as a tourist-site gadget, that is not my art! My blog is a living and creative project. My blog is an artistic and literary project. And it cannot be associated with a printed poetry book. Mine is a pure form of poetry that comes spontaneously from my heart. Mine is not a tamed poetry, it is wild poetry. And it is an entity that also has its own independence. My poetry lives independently of me. I have created an entity that breathes and lives without my aid and without manipulations. I have not manipulated my poetry to make it desirable, and attractive to the public or to transform it into a more performative and more pleasant entity. Mine is not a poetry you find in paper books, because it will never appear on a sheet of paper. My principle is that its free and fluid form is such that it cannot be forced onto a paper page. You do not touch my poetry, unless you print it. But in principle it is only to be read and imagined. And it is not a sensory project. The only sense I want to activate is imagination and the sentimental perception of it. Because my poetry cannot be touched but only felt with the heart!
Elisabetta Esther