OF RAINSTORMS AND BUS STOPS PIOGGIA E COLORE NELLA POESIA POP INGLESE

This paper aims to demonstrate how much Adrian Henri’s poetry changed in his last years. As a member of the Liverpool Poets together with Roger McGough and Brian Patten, Adrian Henri was attracted by what Edward Lucie-Smith called ‘performativity’. The three of them very often played public readings. Their poetry was a real ‘oral’ literature, lyrical, as only British poetry can be. Mortified by a heart attack in the late ‘90s, Henri changed his life and literary stile, adopting a more subjective and romantic use of the words, whose main power was to be evocative as well as rich in symbols.

Pathology of Tick Bites

Mucosal Neuroma Syndrome without mutations of the RET-protooncogene: A histologic study on a case, supported by molecular genetic analysis.

Mucosal neuromas are nerve hamartomas of the digestive tract and larynx, usually observed in the setting of Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 2B (MEN2B), i.e. in the presence of typical mutations and in association with medullary thyroid carcinoma, pheochromocytoma and marfanoid habitus. Exceptionally, they arise without the accompanying mutations and endocrine tumors, and in this paper we are reporting a histologic study on a case lacking the specific mutations. The patient was an adolescent girl with marfanoid habitus, with a left-sided epidermal nevus of the neck, and a bulging left upper lip and cheek. The left side of her tongue was considerably enlarged and studded with multiple protr…

Late Autumn Poem; The Poet's Garden; A,A,B,B,; Haiku

Traduzione dei testi di Roger McGough da "Sky in the Pie", Penguin, Londra, 1985