Marco Fazzini

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Moving through "psychedelic" writers such as Huxley (1894–1963), Trocchi (1925–1984), and Mitchell (1932–2008)—pioneers of an avant-garde approach in 1960s Britain—this lecture/reading will focus on the ancestral bond between music and poetry. It will re-evaluate the writing (including pieces crafted to be set to music) of a generation that altered the course of English-language art, literature, performance, and music. Unreleased Italian translations will feature in a performance retracing a now "historic" five-year period on the island, during which an entire generation lived through the burning span of a utopian, visionary revolution.

Marco Fazzini is a poet, literary critic, and translator. He has published several books and articles on postcolonial literatures in English and has translated some of the most prominent contemporary poets for both independent and major Italian publishers. His history of Scottish literature, Alba Literaria, was published in 2005. In 2012, he published a work on song and poetry for freedom, Canto un mondo libero, and in 2023, a book on the American singer-songwriter Eric Andersen, Mingle with the Universe. His major interviews with contemporary English-language poets are collected in the volumes Conversations with Scottish Poets (2015) and The Saying of It (2017). A selection of his essays on contemporary poetry is gathered in the volume At the Back of My Ear (2019). He teaches English and Postcolonial Literature at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.