Canticles of Today – The Island Among the Woods
With Umberto Piersanti, poet and Nobel Prize nominee in Literature, and Massimo Parolini, moderator
Francis’ Canticle is a praise of nature. Poets have always resonated with that song, which echoes within our very souls. With his poetic voice, Umberto Piersanti honors the landscape as a source from which thought and spirit may draw nourishment.
A journey through the thickets of paths where the breath of nature still lingers, beginning with the woods of the Cesane near Urbino and expanding the gaze toward the human dimension.
He has published numerous poetry collections and was awarded the Saba Prize (2021) and the Camaiore Special Prize (2021). Since 2016, he has served as President of the Giacomo Leopardi World Poetry Center in Recanati.
