Roberto Amato ( Viareggio , 1953 ) is a writer and poet Italian .
Roberto Amato was born in Viareggio , where he still lives in 1953 . Discovered by Manlio Cancogni , he began in 2003 with the collection of poems The Celestial Kitchens with which he won the Viareggio Prize for poetry. Three years later with the Travel Agency , a novel in verse form, he won the Spallicci Prize . Still tripping between lyricism and fiction his third test: The 2009 Tree Designer . The next two years The High Water , followed by a 2012 novelist with The Wise Writer . His last book, Separate cities , Marks the return to poetry. Collaborator with the Comparisons and New Arguments [3] magazines , is the same as the writer of books for children Roberto Amato who writes for Zephyro Edizioni.
The city is designed very well.
Moving about is easy even for someone like me who has no sense of direction.
We always end up at the same square: the same huge equestrian statue
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The pigeons listen to us converse.
We talk about things that are almost impossible:
the open-air theatre of Terpsichore
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There are goats up there
as always in place of the doves.
There are noises that keep the world awake.
There I am and I'm moving
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Yesterday
I visited the house of Leopardi.
A beautiful apartment on the Lungarno.
The custodian was a sleepy sort of man.
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The infinite is like this:
there are only the things I like.
For example
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