Selected from a longer work, Sogetti a cancellazione (Archipelago Itaca, 2022), Lorenzo Mari’s Cancellations is marked by continuing ‘slippage,’ lapses and indiscretions, as they remain the hallmark of this fugitive and haunting work. While playing with different codes, including QR codes and automatically generated subtitles and translations, the young poet’s remarkable texts deal with the hypothesis that poetry may be an exploration on the verge of cancellation. “It isn’t flat, it’s a slope,” says Mari, “the place hasn’t an answer / to the song.”
Selected from a longer work, Sogetti a cancellazione (Archipelago Itaca, 2022), Lorenzo Mari’s Cancellations is marked by continuing ‘slippage,’ lapses and indiscretions, as they remain the hallmark of this fugitive and haunting work. While playing with different codes, including QR codes and automatically generated subtitles and translations, the young poet’s remarkable texts deal with the hypothesis that poetry may be an exploration on the verge of cancellation. “It isn’t flat, it’s a slope,” says Mari, “the place hasn’t an answer / to the song.”
Lorenzo Mari has published collections, of poetry including Soggetti a cancellazione (Archipelago Itaca, 2022), from which the Magra chapbook, Cancellations (2024) was selected; and most recently, Nulla dies (Benway Editions, 2025). He has authored several essays on philosophers and writers as diverse as Antonio Gramsci, Furio Jesi, John Berger, Nuruddin Farah or Marlene NourbeSe Philip. He also translates poetry from Spanish and English to Italian, César Vallejo, Leónidas Lamborghini, Fred Moten and Michael Palmer, among others. Mari lives in Bologna where we works and writes.
