Arminio, "today more than ever we need poetry"

(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 12 - Today more than ever there is "an enormous need for poetry" and Franco Arminio gave it a voice, managing to speak to everyone. Poet, landscape scientist, artist of always exhausted evenings, he has become a unique and surprising literary phenomenon. His latest book, 'The care of the gaze. Nuovafarmacia poetica ', released on 22 July by Bompiani, is the best-selling poetry book on Amazon these days and is also at the top of the best-selling poetry and literature list on Ibs.
    A result that also amazes the author who reported it on Facebook. "'The cure of the gaze' is not an easy book. It is irregular, of prose with poems, it speaks of death, of pain. It means that there is an audience interested in non-canonical poets," Arminio tells ANSA.
    "Everyone in Italy complains that poetry does not sell, they should investigate. It is singular that on Amazon, which works all over the world, 'La cura della vista' is at the forefront of poetry bestsellers. It would be interesting to find the data on what you read poetry in the world. My books have sales out of quota compared to poetry whose average circulation in Italy is about a thousand copies. 'Give way to the trees' of 2017 sold 40 thousand copies and continues to sell. 'Infinity without paying attention' 2019 is over 10 thousand copies. The day after its release 'La curadellolook' had its first reprint. A week after the second and there is talk of a fourth at the end of August. I don't have the data but we will be around 10 thousand copies " explains Arminio who is the author of 40 books but has exploded as a phenomenon in recent years with poetry. Much is also due to his evenings throughout Italy. "Reservations are always greater than the available seats, on average 150-200. A situation similar to that of concerts has been created. Poetry is like a provisional community life" says Arminio.
    His encounters are "a sort of party. There is a depressive climate around literature. You are resigned to famine. You have to shake yourself up. For me, poetry is a craft and a mystery. It offers an enlargement to look within. Politics has collapsed, religion is not highly rated and a crack opens, "he says. (HANDLE).