Well that was brilliant, rearranging the airspace. Beautifully written snd presented. 

🖤💙🖤 Absolutely  beautiful ... trippy sound & contemplative windscape poem🖤💙🖤

wonderful pairing of thoughts and sounds.. multiple layers of contemplation : )

Cut-up, fold-in and slow motion techniques as a representation of a state of soul, in words and sounds.

Sonopoetry by Ilaria Boffa
Field recording, wheat fields at 'Anello dei Colli Euganei', by Ilaria Boffa
Pic wheat fields, by IB

'The Value of Everything

When the wind blows 
wild on wheat fields
colonies of bee-eaters twirl 
in and out the canopies. 
Up and down they
rearrange air space.
A cut up technique 
of intermittent trajectories.
The value of watching
their change of pace
on each leaf bent.
Catching sight of nest holes.

The value of living
life folded in half.
Two linear texts juxtaposed
and unequipped for
restoring meaning.

The value of standing 
still, on hold.
The value of everything.'

The Value Of Everything

Poetry, Field recording and the More-Than-Human Human

'I use this space to offer an experience of Sonopoetry, the voice of verses combined with field/sound recording and music collaborations.
Writing and composition marked the passage from pre-history to history for human beings. I firmly believe that writing&listening (active care/empathy and full attention to each and every sound from each and every living and non living being) could inform, guide and represent the Posthuman era that I'll call Human Human era -from sapiens sapiens to human human.
The contemporary alliance between the disciplines of Art, Science and Philosophy elicits the conceptualisation of the Posthuman that to me also implies the transition from the Anthropocene to the Age of Art as a driver of thought and vision. I advocate the responsibility to assign a 'more than human' meaning to the Posthuman concept, that's why More-Than-Human Human, in order to emphasise the human core, the genetic connection to bio and non-bio diversity as per the Biophilia Hypothesis.
Are we listening?'

Born 6 January 1972, Ilaria Boffa is an Italian poet and sound recordist. 
She has published four poetry collections and she is one of the eight authors included in the North East American Association publication ‘Writing in a Different Language’ Vol XL 2018.
Over the last years, she has been experimenting with field recording, blending her spoken word with sound.
Publications:
Beginnings & Other tragedies/Inizi e Altre Tragedie, 2023, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
https://www.valleypressuk.com/shop/p/beginnings-tragedies

About Sounds About Us/Di Suoni e di Noi, 2019, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
http://www.samueleeditore.it/about-sounds-about-us-ilaria-boffa/

Writing in A Different Language, volume XL NeMLA publications (Northeast Modern Language Association), College of New Jersey, 2018
http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/publications/nis/past/volume-xl.html

The Bliss of Hush and Wires/Periferie, 2016, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
http://www.samueleeditore.it/periferie-the-bliss-of-hush-and-wires-ilaria-boffa-2/

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