(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 17 - The performative poet Giuliano Logos wins the XV edition of the Poetry Slam World Cup. It is the first time in history that Italy has won the victory, winning the title of world champion of performance and oral poetry.
The competition, now in its 15th edition, was held from 10 to 16 May in Paris, partly live and partly instreaming. During the final Logos - 27 years old, poet, writer, rapper of Apulian origin who moved to Rome and co-founder of the collective of artists WOW - Incendi Spontanei - brought seven of Poetry Slam, in Italian, written and interpreted by him, accompanied by the projection of the translation in real time.
It goes from four hundred years, on the problem of plastic degradation, to Federico, on the life of Frederick II of Swabia.
And then 3040, on the landings of migrants; Terroni on emigration to the north, Give them focus, on the sense of generational redemption; Tempoflex and Beyond, who investigate the relationship between the human being and time within his society.
Born in Chicago in 1987 by the poet-worker Marc Kelly Smith, the format of the Poetry Slam is closely connected to the literary genre of the Spoken Word, a current of oral poetry originated during the first half of the twentieth century by blues musicians, from the artistic movement of the Harlem Renaissance and, later years , from the beat poetry of the sixties. The format, which recalls the battles of rap, provides three minutes of time to perform a piece with the only use of body and voice and five judges chosen from the audience. The Poetry Slam is now widespread all over the world: about 100 nations, including Italy, have developed their own national circuit (in Italy it is called LIPS - Lega Italiana Poetry Slam) with thousands of performers to challenge each other progressively in local, regional, national competitions. and international. (HANDLE).