Binladenian Poems

"Written in New York just days after the attack on the Twin Towers, this text went astray for ten years and was buried because of self-censorship for ten more. Finally, it sees the light of day almost two decades after having been written. The account experiments in extremis with a narrative technique sustained not so much by logical, abstract thinking as by free associations, delirious occurrences, nonsense thoughts that arise in the streaming of the conscience of a decaying mind. And also reverberations through consonance, real-life anecdotes or even sensory experiences, that seem to have only personal coherence, that is, to have meaning only for the one who expresses them. Madness, then, grips the text as broken facts explode like shards of meaning into the textual framework. Nevertheless, there is something that remains on the surface: the attacks of 9/11 on New York. A devastating act of war examined from the inside, from the creaking scrap metal and the wasted bodies. The words invite us to fall into the numb post-attack scrambling of the world’s capital, while the images and metaphors lead us into the vestiges of Ground Zero and the civic reaction, including real encounters with figures like Lou Reed, Patti Smith, or Jackson Mac Low, who speak from the ashes of lower Manhattan, and, at the same time, into the front pages of the newspapers in the days and weeks following the double attack. The narrative allows us to come as close as we want to the military action with the greatest consequences for the world to date and to experience first-hand the act of terror that rocked the world. The string of events and the horrible absurdity of its occurrence are captured here with utmost honesty, so much so that the storyteller’s own stability in it is compromised. The vestiges of our speaker traverse, via an uncensored monologue with amazing internal coherence, the physical, but also mental, space of the tragedy. The facts narrated here are, therefore, undeniably present. The invitation is open to let yourself drop down this chute of words and into a front-row seat before the horror." (From page 0 of the book)

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