Lello Voce was born in Naples in 1957. He lives and works in Treviso (Venice). Poet, writer and performer.
In 1982 he published Singin’ Napoli cantare (Ripostes ed.) in 1985, (Musa!) (book + audio tape, Mancosu ed.) and I segni i suoni le cose (book + Audio CD, Manni ed.) in 1996.
His first novel – Eroina (Transeuropa ed.) - was published in 1999.
He wrote all of his second novel, Cucarachas, live on the Internet on www.raisatzoom.it, and it was published in 2002 by DeriveApprodi.
His next poetry book, Farfalle da combattimento , which includes an Audio CD with his readings and music by Paolo Fresu and Frank Nemola and is illustrated by six drawings by Silvio Merlino was published in the InVersi series edited by Aldo Nove by Bompiani (1999).
In 2003 he was awarded the Delfini Poetry Award for L’esercizio della lingua (with original drawings by Sandro Chia, Mazzoli editore).
The verses of the latter sylloge were set to music by Frank Nemola and published in his first CD, Fast Blood , [MRF5 musical editions, distributed by SELF] – in cooperation with musicians Paolo Fresu, Michael Gross, Luigi Cinque and Luca Sanzò.
Lai was published in 2007 by edizioni d’if and his novels, collected under the title Il Cristo elettrico were re-published by No Reply in the same year .
L’esercizio della lingua (poetry, 1991-2008) , a selected anthology of his whole poetic production which also includes the poems in his latest collection, was published in September 2008 by Le Lettere of Florence under the moral Patronage of the Fabrizio De Andrè Foundation-NPO, in the Fuori Formato series, edited by Andrea Cortellessa. The book is accompanied by a Dual Disc, the audio part of which contains the new poetry tracks, Piccola cucina Cannibale , with music by Paolo Fresu, Michael Gross and Frank Nemola. The DVD side contains original video by Giacomo Verde and Robert Rebotti, and some archive audio-video materials.
His work has been translated into French, English, Spanish, Catalan, Japanese, German, Brazilian Portuguese (by Haroldo De Campos), chinese and Arabic (by Joumana Haddad).
He tooks part in a large number of readings and performances around the world, to name but a few in Milan (Milano Poesia, LeonkArt, Centro Sociale Occupato Leonkavallo,) ; Rome (Romapoesia, Festival dei poeti, Teatro Romano di Ostia Antica, Teatro Argentina, ) ; Parma (International Festival Di versi in versi) ; Bologna (Bologna Festival, Strumenti a voce, Le voci della poesia, ), Marseilles (Centre International de Poèsie, Le Groupe 93) ; Paris (Italian Culture Institute, Polyphonix, Centre Pompidou - Grande Salle), Yale University (New Haven, USA, ), Naples (Galassia Gutemberg, Napoli Teatro Festival Italia ) Geneva (Festival de la Bâtie,), São Paulo (14th Book Biennal, Ungaretti poet of three continents), Venice (Venezia Poesia), Palermo (Festival del Novecento, Palermo Teatro Festival), Tokyo (Italian Poetry Festival), Bucharest-Konstanz (Ars Amandi) Berlin (Weltklang nacht der poesie, Berlin Poetry Festival, Brecht Fest - Berliner Ensamble), Barcelona (Polyphonix), Festival Propost) Palma de Majorca, (Festival de la Mediteranìa), Qhinqai lake Festival (China, Tibet).
He is the Director of Absolute Poetry Festival, one of the most know poethic events in Italy
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