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Enzo Minarelli, born in 1951 (graduated in a psycholinguistics thesis at the Venice University) has been involved into the field of poetry and its relationships with the sound, the writing, the video since the early Seventies.

He has published many books of poetry, among them, “Sterzine”, poesie 2009-13, (Firenze, 2014), “O’ grande ventre dell’onda” (Lecce, 2007), “seiperunosei” (Lecce, 2000), “Poesie Doccaso” (Reggio Emilia,1993), “Meccanografie” (Udine,1991), “Poemi Cognomi” (Rome,1988), “El Poemméxico” (Mexico City 1988), “Commediarcom” (Naple,1983), “Multipoesie Melogrammatiche” (Mulino di Bazzano 1981), “Obscuritas Obscenitas” (Mulino di Bazzano 1979). In 2005 his first novel has been published, “Polipoesia Mon Amour” with an audio CD “nelsensodinonsentire”, (Udine), which includes his early sound poems. The second one, “Amo”, issued in 2012.

For the American review Visible Language (Chicago, 2001) he has edited a special issue, called “VoiceImage” about the close connections between the voice, the performance and the Polypoetry. “Polypoetry Maastricht” is a catalogue in the form of book with 6 Cds (Hamburg, 2003) with the total visual, sound documentation of the same festival held in 2001. For the Brazilian review he has issued the essay “The voice as an instrument of creation: from the Futurists to the sound poetry”, with an audio CD, “The voice is princess”. “ The Queen Voice, sound poetry in public” (Lecce, 2006), and in 2008, the critical study “The Voice of Poetry”, vocorality in the XX century has been issued with a CD, translated by Eduel, Brazi in 2010 the title was Polypoetry, and The Voices of Poets, (Bologna University, 2011). In 2010  L’Absolu ou rien, silent fragment from the borders  (Udine) and the tale Amo (Udine, 2012). In 2014, As razões da Voz, Interviews with protagonists of sound poetry in XX century, (Eduel and Esplorare l’invisibile Ascoltare l’inaudito, la ricerca poetica di Jorge-Eduardo Eielson, verbal-vocal-visual anthology 1949-1998, con M.Canfield, (Firenze) with CD.

Several sound editions in records and audiocassettes with collaborations to international radios and tv; in 1983 he founds 3ViTre PAIR Editions of Polypoetry, a record review. His sound poems are currently present in many international Archives. He is now directing special Baobab issues about sound poetry in the world. In 1998, it comes out ‘Coralmente me stesso’ a CD which assembles his recent sound poetry production. In 2001 his first CD-Rom has been issued ‘CDRem’. ‘Fame’ is his recent CD (Pogus, New York, 2012). Parts of his archive can be consulted permanently in special interactive installations at Bologna institutions and at the Lincoln Center, New York,.

In 1987 he writes the Manifesto of Polypoetry, an attempt to theorize the live show of sound poetry, his polypoetical events (the Author calls with the label Polypoetry 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,7...) have been performed in Europe, Canada, U.S.A., Mexico, Cuba, Japan, Israel, Colombia and Brazil.

As a videopoet, he has been producing with the Centro Video Arte di Ferrara many videopoems since1982, and some videosoundpoetry installations among them ‘The Flag’ (1989), ‘The Shop’ (1991) ‘The sky and the earth tell...’ (1998) by which he has taken part to European and American festivals. ‘Videogrammi’ (1998) is a videocasette which presents his video works. His latest video installation has been presented at Art Gallery V-Idea in Genova (2003), the title is ‘CineMuseo’, while his recent videopoems are “Berlin the 31 december 2009”, “Em Lisboa”, Arte Fiera-Cineteca Bologna (2012) and “Iamsterdamned”, Festival di Poesia, Genova, (2013).

He still directs the Video Sound Poetry Festival, international meeting wholly dedicated to the connections between the video image and the sound of poetry, and Festival di Poesia Sonora, a symposium-festival of polypoetry events, yearly held at DAMS, University of Bologna.

Many one-man shows about the poetry of the image, to be stressed the anthological one-man show at the Museo de Arte Moderna in Zaragoza (Spain) in 1986 and ‘Fonografias/Phonografies’ (Galleria Alphacentauri, Parma, 1998). Next to the production of book-objects, the series of picture on canvas called ‘Phonographies represent the central part of his visual reasearch. ‘Nembrot e altri libri&oggetto 1974-2010’ has been his latest one-man show (Villa Cernigliaro-Biella, La Barbagianna-Pontassieve 2011, Biblioteca Sala Borsa-Arte Libro Bologna 2012). He has edited many shows of visual poetry in Italy, ,recently he has been editor of italian selections for the reviews Dimensão (Brazil) and Visible Language (U.S.A.).

He has been ‘visiting poet’ at the San Francisco State University, at the University of California in Davies, at the San Josè State University, at the University of California in San Diego, at the San Diego State University, at the College of Art in L.A.,  at the Universidad  Autonoma in Mexico City, at the Pontificia Università Cattolica in São Paolo in Brazil, at the Budapest University, at the De Montfort University in Leicester, at the Academy van Eyck in Maastricht, at the Mexicali Universidad in Mexicali and at the Antioquia Universidad in Medellin.

Many critics have been writing about his work, to be pointed out at least, Renato Barilli, Vittorio Fagone, Nicholas Zurbrugg, Sergio Givone and Paul Zumthor.