As I sit down to write this preface, inevitably the thoughts fly to the cold night in January last year, when his friend Ian Delacroix I, sitting at the foot of the Cathedral of Milan, we observed the shadows of the Gothic spire sucked by artificial lights sirens advertising, deceptive, twinkled around us.
And we were wondering, I and his friend Ian, if the night was still able to captivate and inspire the human spirit. If the moon was still pointing the spotlight on the stage of theatrical representation of all the horrors ancestral living within us, dormant during the day and awake in the night life of consciousness.
Finally, if in this age of mass communication and plastic items, you can still sense an art form as poetry, dark, possibly dead and buried with Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal and its .
The response we got from this volume, the result of that ill Literary Award for Poetry Dark called "Carmen Nocturna" at the end, not without risks, my horror ARS NOCTURNE Culture Association has decided to ban. A literary prize that (paradoxically, in this case ...) has shed light on the darkness of the state of the Gothic in the first decade of 2000, revealing the value of a handful of "cursed poets" respectable, as the winner of Premio Alberto Baccarini, an artist of which I am sure, hear about in the future ...
The book is divided into two parts: Carmen Nocturna, containing the best of the literary prize, and Murmur Mortiferum containing some verses of the jury of the Prize (which on this occasion have given the best, or worst if you prefer, their soul noir ...)
Before leaving the presentation anthology, which we have entrusted to a "bard of darkness" exceptional, the "vampire" Steve Sylvester, a legendary leader and founder of the infamous horror-metal band DEATH SS, I want to thank a group of friends without whom this book would not have been born: first my dear friend Ivy, lead singer of the gothic-metal band DOMINA NOCTIS, horror writer, poet and graphic artist (her beautiful cover of the volume). Following the aforementioned Ian Delacroix and Zephyr Mesvell, Giovanni Buzi and the demon that haunts my soul, Roger D. Sanguenero. E. .. Last but not least ... Marco Solfanelli, editorial director of Tabula Fati, who believed in this project.
goes to all of them my sincere gratitude.
Domenico Nigro
artistic director of ARS NOCTURNE
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