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.”