The Poetry of Giorgio Verrecchia

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Extracts from two collections of his poetry, reproduced with kind permission from his widow:

Perhaps a Novel (1966-1982)
Nods (1991)

Perhaps a Novel (1966-1982)

Printed for private circulation. Phene Press, Haslemere. 1983


                -- 1966 --



The fifth & sixth,



She,   her,   hen, hatches the embraced world of
the shoulders .... his hard faces of cinema cut
through the butter of party affection




wave   good   bye   &   race   with   the   salmon
              chasing   the  tail
                        of  your  ungrabbed  girls


             -- 1967 - 1982 --



twenty million . . .


    twenty  million   seconds


                         to  sharpen  the



      rodent   teeth


                      of friendship




    All   the   rest


                  to   file    down ( & up )


           the   knife    tooth


                             of   love

Nods (1991)


            Translation


   Not just reading

   Not entirely grabbing from thin air

   Taking first the big step

   Then daintily to & fro

   on ballerina block-points

   Dosing the explosions

   & not forgetting the echoes

   Clamping would be perfection

   on new vintage grapes



            Romantic recipe


1  a good measure of flint spark

2  rainbow archer bull's-eye

3  early sharp & late soft wonders


   unscramble Freud-Jung's hefty syllables

   pour gently into the upturned gaze

© copyright Giorgio Verrecchia 1991
Published jointly in an edition of 100 copies
by The Many Press, 15 Norcott Road, London N16 7BJ [ISBN 0-907326-24-2]
and Poetical Histories, 27 Sturton Street, Cambridge CB1 2QG [ISBN 1-871965-10-1]