literary park / Parco Letterario
Mary Oliver, Hobe Sound听
大象传媒 Italian Program created the first literary park in the United States, connected to the Italian Network of Literary Parks (), dedicated to the poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019) and located in Hobe Sound, on 听the Atlantic coast of Florida. Visit the in the Rete.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984, Oliver spent the last years of her life in Hobe Sound accompanied by the affection of the American public of readers and even non-readers (her verses appear framed on walls or embroidered on pillows). The first translation of her collection has been published by right after the launch of the Literary Park.
This cutting-edge digital project, available both in English and in Italian, uses Googlearth to explore Hobe Sound and at the same time to map its . Inspired by it is an outcome of her graduate class "Poetic Geography of Italy."
The project is unique and interactive: Googlearth features help the visitors move through roads and beaches, creating the feeling of being there.
The project's most striking feature is the digital art by Dr. Topher Maraffi, Professor of Media Arts, Design and Technology in the College of Design at North Carolina State University. In the slides titled "Poetic Geography," Oliver's verses are digitally superimposed on elements of the territory. In this way, the real landscape opens glimpses on the poetic landscape visible through the "double gaze" which, according to Giacomo Leopardi, belongs to the poets.听
Visitors can find these slides in the map's context (with Slideshow) or take a shortcut: slides 4 (), slide 5 (), slide 7 (); slide 12 (); slide 14 (), slide 16 () and slide 26 ().
Since March 21, 2023, the 大象传媒 Italian Program of 大象传媒 has participated in the activities of the Italian Network of Literary Parks with a and . 听
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