Matt Sedillo:
Vite derubate, Terra derubata : Falciando folgie d’erba & Città al secondo piano
SIGNED by Matt Sedillo
Conversation between Los Angeles poets Matt Sedillo and Richard Modiano.
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Matt Sedillo has been called “America's best political poet” and “Poet Laureate of the struggle”. He is winner of the Joe Hill Labor Poetry Award 2017 and the Dante Laurel 2022. His two collections Falciando Foglie d' Erba and Città al Secondo Piano are published here for the first time in Italy. He is the literary director of the Mexican Cultural Institute in Los Angeles.
Richard Modiano is a native of Los Angeles. He attended the University of Hawai’i and New York University. While a resident of New York City he became active in the literary community connected to the Poetry Project where he came to know Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, William S. Burroughs and Ted Berrigan. In 2001 he was a programmer at Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, joined the Board of Trustees in 2006 and from 2010 to 2019, he served as Executive Director. In that time he produced and curated hundreds of literary events. Richard is a rank and file member of the Industrial Workers of the World. In 2019 he was elected Vice President of the California State Poetry Society and he was the recipient of the Joe Hill Award for labor poetry in 2022. His collection The Forbidden Lunch Box is published by Punk Hostage Press.
SIGNED by Matt Sedillo
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Conversation between Los Angeles poets Matt Sedillo and Richard Modiano.
Saturday November 25th 3pm PST
Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore
917 E. 3rd St
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Livestream on Instagram @artbookhwla
Matt Sedillo has been called “America's best political poet” and “Poet Laureate of the struggle”. He is winner of the Joe Hill Labor Poetry Award 2017 and the Dante Laurel 2022. His two collections Falciando Foglie d' Erba and Città al Secondo Piano are published here for the first time in Italy. He is the literary director of the Mexican Cultural Institute in Los Angeles.
Richard Modiano is a native of Los Angeles. He attended the University of Hawai’i and New York University. While a resident of New York City he became active in the literary community connected to the Poetry Project where he came to know Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, William S. Burroughs and Ted Berrigan. In 2001 he was a programmer at Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, joined the Board of Trustees in 2006 and from 2010 to 2019, he served as Executive Director. In that time he produced and curated hundreds of literary events. Richard is a rank and file member of the Industrial Workers of the World. In 2019 he was elected Vice President of the California State Poetry Society and he was the recipient of the Joe Hill Award for labor poetry in 2022. His collection The Forbidden Lunch Box is published by Punk Hostage Press.
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“It is well known how history is rewritten by the winners who often ignore or keep out “other” stories. In many of the poems translated here, taken from Matt Sedillo's two collections, Mowing Leaves of Grass and City on the Second Floor, the author rereads and retraces precisely those "other" stories. He does this in the light of precise data and references, which make his excavation work even richer and more precious. Without too many preambles, he mentions names, places, dates of massacres, wild gentrification, injustices and inequalities almost always consumed in the shadow of declared policies of inclusion carried out through various legislative instruments or racist and homophobic attitudes of the American political, economic and social system towards the so-called minorities".
From the preface by Anna Lombardo
Translation from English by Anna Lombardo