Fabrizio Frosini

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Born in Tuscany, Italy. Currently living close to Florence and to Vinci, Leonardo's hometown. Doctor in Medicine, specialized in Neurosurgery, with an ancient passion for Poetry. Author of over 2,000 poems, in 16 Collections (see at the bottom) . Books published [both eBooks and Printed Editions]: Books published as sole Author: – «The Chinese Gardens – English Poems» – English Edition (also in Italian Edition: – «I Giardini Cinesi»): – «KARUMI – Haiku & Tanka»; – «Allo Specchio di Me Stesso» ('In the Mirror of Myself') - Italian Edition; – «Il Vento e il Fiume» ('The Wind and the River') - Italian Edition; – «A Chisciotte» ('To Quixote') - Italian Edition; – «Il Puro, l'Impuro – Kosher/Treyf» ('The pure, the Impure – Kosher / Treyf') - Italian Ed.; – «Frammenti di Memoria – Carmina et Fragmenta» ('Fragments of Memories') - Italian Ed.; – «La Città dei Vivi e dei Morti» ('The City of the Living and the Dead') - Italian Edition; – «Nella luce confusa del Crepuscolo» ('In the fuzzy light of Twilight') - Italian Edition; – «La Chiave dei Sogni» ('The Key to Dreams') - Italian Edition; – «Echi e Rompicapi» ('Puzzles & Echoes') - Italian Edition; – «Ballate e Altre Cadenze» ('Ballads & Other Cadences') - Italian Edition; – «Selected Poems – ?p??e?µ??a ????µata – Poesie Scelte» – GREEK, ENGLISH, ITALIAN; – «Prelude to the Night – English Poems» – English Edition (also in Italian Edition: – «Preludio alla Notte»): ~*~ Under publication: «A Season for Everyone - Haiku & Tanka Poetry» – English Edition; «Il sentiero della luna» [" The moon's path" ] – Italian Edition; ~*~ Anthologies published by Fabrizio Frosini: – «At The Crossing Of Seven Winds» – English Edition; – «Nine Tales Of Creation» – English Edition; – «Scattering Dreams & Tales» – English Edition; – «We Are The Words - Siamo Parole» – BILINGUAL EDITION: ENGLISH-ITALIAN; – «Whispers to the World - Sussurri al Mondo» – BILINGUAL EDITION: ENGLISH-ITALIAN; – «The Double Door» - English Edition (poems by Fabrizio Frosini and Daniel J. Brick): – «Poetry Against Terror» - English Edition; – «How to write Poetry, A Handbook - Come scrivere Poesie, Manuale» - BILINGUAL EDITION: ENGLISH-ITALIAN; – «Poets Against Inequality» – English Edition; – «By Land & By Seas» – English Edition; – «Voices without veils» – English Edition; – «Singing Together – Poems for Christmas» – English Edition; – «We All Are Persons – Why Gender Discrimination? » – English Edition; – «Our Chains, Our Dreams» Part I. – English Edition; – «Our Chains, Our Dreams» Part II. – English Edition; – «Our Chains, Our Dreams» Part III. – English Edition; – «A Note, A Word, A Brush: Ode To The Arts» – English Edition; – «Seasons of the Fleeting World – Writing Haiku» - English Edition; – «Our Only World – Poetry for Planet Earth» - English Edition; – «Time to show up – Poets for Democracy» - English Edition; – «Let's Laugh Together – Poems for Children» - English Edition; – «Moments of Lightness – Haiku & Tanka» - English Edition; – «United We Stand – Poets Against Terror» - English Edition; – «When Love is Bitter» – English Edition; – «From an Old Path – Contemporary European Poetry» – English Edition; – «Tunes from the Indian Subcontinent – Contemporary Poetry» – English Edition; – «Whispering to the Heart – Contemporary African Poetry» – English Edition; – «Hues of the World – Contemporary Poetry» – English Edition; – «Fifty-six Female Voices of Contemporary Poetry» – English Edition; – «The Sounds of America – Contemporary American Poetry» – English Edition; – «Homo Homini Lupus... Why To kill a Mockingbird? » – English Edition; – «Essays on the World of Humans» (by F. Frosini & D.J. Brick) - English Edition; – «Through Time, Through Space» – English Edition. ~*~ Under publication: – «Poems for the Winter» – English Edition. ~*~ Some of Frosini's poems are also published in the Anthology " Riflessi 62" (Italian Edition) , edited by Pagine Srl. ~*~ Frosini's 16 Collections: «Il sentiero della luna» [" The moon's path" ], «Il puro, l'impuro – Kosher/Treyf» [" The pure, the impure – Kosher / Treyf" ], «Frammenti di Memoria – Carmina et Fragmenta» [" Fragments of Memory – Carmina et Fragmenta" ], «Ballate e altre Cadenze» [" Ballads and other cadences" ], «Echi e Rompicapi» [" Puzzles and Echoes" ], «La Chiave dei Sogni» [" The Key of Dreams" ], «Il Vento e il Fiume» e altre Poesie [" The Wind and the River" and other poems], «La Città dei Vivi e dei Morti» [" The City of the Living and the Dead" –epic of 1,200 verses], «A Chisciotte» e altre poesie [" To Quijote" and other poems], «Karumi – Haiku & Tanka», «Nella luce confusa del crepuscolo» [" In the fuzzy light of the twilight" ], «Allo Specchio di me stesso» [" In the mirror of myself" ], «The Chinese gardens – English Poems», «Prelude to the night – English Poems», «La casa fatta di foglie» [" The house made of leaves" ], «A Season for Everyone - Haiku & Tanka Poetry». ~*~ In Frosini's Poetry: 1. The Truth is Affirmed; 2. Beauty is Conveyed; 3. The Personal becomes the Universal. One of the key terms in contemporary poetry is 'POETRY OF WITNESS'. " Florence, A Walk With A View" is an excellent example of this type of poem. It exchanges the anger we experienced in the preceding poem with melancholy, but this is a haunted and desperate melancholy, not at all like the word's root meaning of sweet sorrow. Yet, in Fabrizio Frosini’s poem, the city charms the visitor with its natural beauty – " the silky lights of the / Sunset" – and artistic ambiance – " the intimate warmth of nostalgia that makes / Your heart melt at the sight around" . In the finest poetry, beauty is conveyed in all of it sensuous and spiritual glory. The title " Water Music" refers to one of Handel's most popular works, a masterpiece of baroque melody, rhythm and harmony. The poem, however, is not about this music.. here is a shining element of the beauty this poem conveys – " I was in my room, staring at the clear sky through the window. The moon, so pale and magical, drawing my imagination to her. In my ears Handel's music was playing softly." – There is the beauty of VITA NOVA, in this Frosini's poem: Dante's idealization of Beatrice with its artistic and moral benefits experienced by a contemporary couple. And finally the beauty of sublimation, when an otherwise sensuous experience must be transferred to the plane of the Imagination. Other Frosini's poem, like “Nocturnal Snowing”, are Poems of Memory, that reveal the persistence of an experience of mutual attraction in the poet's life over many decades. There, a young woman, who is forever young and lovely in the poet's mind, becomes a touchstone of emotional value. But not all good experiences are given a future by the hand of fate. And so Frosini's poetry also explores the emotional consequences of the loss of such a promising moment... The prevailing reaction in reader after reader is that Frosini's verses relate to their emotional lives. In other words, Fabrizio Frosini's personal experience reflects their personal experience, and thus the Personal becomes the Universal... [D.J.Brick] ~*~ Fabrizio Frosini)

The Best Poem Of Fabrizio Frosini

Nocturnal Snowing

«Let this fluffy snow fall upon our
Dreams and make them shine! »

Set free,
Your breath smoothens unshaken skies;
Your perception scratches unopened realities.

Is it a diversion -maybe- for lost thoughts,
For lost faces and sins?

Looking the other way out of fear or
Embarrassment, waking up next morning,
You should then learn
How to keep alive the drowsing mind,
While trying to shove away
Her plait of hair,
Jammed in the eyes of memory.

Ah.. Those haunting memories!

Was her pain real
When she asserted «That one is my spoiled dress!
My party dress
Which your eyes, filled with lust, tore off of me..»?

Hardly a twist of fate that
Multivalent perception which made
Visionary —Fanciful
Your unnecessary waiting.

Because she didn't come back.
Even at dawn. Even in your expectation.

Now your pain screams only through silence
When you sink your fingers deep
Into your bleeding heart —A sheer grief
With no voice anymore
Because day in day out, year after year
Everything becomes habit.

Until,
Gazing at the fluffy snow falling, you
Caught a glimpse of her —Along with a
Whiff of her perfume..

Peering deeply into your eyes
She spoke words of hope
Along with a promise -possibly-:

« A new life is looming beyond the whitened
Fields of your mind »

Hushed words, uttered under her breath,
Not to scrape the purity of the night.

Was it a prophecy?
The celebration of a triumph or a
Failure —A bloodcurdling nightmare?

Enough! I'm fed up!

I stare at my bloody fingers
And faintly sigh.




(Florence,2014)


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