Beppe Costa

Beppe Costa (born 25 August 1941) is an Italian poet, novelist and publisher.

Born into a poor family grows, however, in an environment rich in books.

He published the first volume of poems in 1970 (Una poltrona comoda, Giuseppe Di Maria editore), characterized, like the others that follow, by the theme of love and nonconformity.

Beppe Costa Beppe wrote and published two tour guides, first at local level, Catania, Guida ai monumenti, and the second at regional level, Sicilia, Guida ai monumenti, both with Muglia publisher.

Translated two books of the playwright Fernando Arrabal.

In 1976 he founded the publishing house Pellicanolibri, in promoting his work as editor of artists bashful, awkward or marginalized.

In 1978 he met the poet Dario Bellezza which will begin with poetry readings and book presentations all around Italy, using everywhere is available: squares, bars, libraries, theaters.

He reaches fame with the book Romanzo siciliano, that treat the autobiographical story of an intellectual Sicilian in his struggle and his complaint the south and the Mafia.

In the United States the novel is reviewed by World Literature Today.

In 1980 he translated and published the first work of the writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Manifesto subnormal.

It will be also editor of Gisèle Halimi, Luce d'Eramo, Alberto Moravia, Dario Bellezza, Goliarda Sapienza, Arnoldo Foà, Angelo Maria Ripellino.

Since 1982, with the poet Dario Bellezza gives life to the series Inediti rari e diversi in order to report the authors excluded from the Italian literary society, like Anna Maria Ortese.

Beppe Costa collaborated until 1985 with articles on Giornale del Sud and in Siciliani both directed by Giuseppe Fava.

He publishes in Giornale di Sicilia interviews to Alberto Moravia, Enzo Jannacci, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Leo Ferré.

He also participates to the radio program of poetry by named Zenit & Nadir.

In 1985 he finally left Sicily.

He public other collections of poems and receive the Akesineide prize for Fatto d'amore and Canto d'amore.

In 1985 manages together with Adele Cambria to make apply for the first time the in favor of Anna Maria Ortese.

In 1989 wins the Alfonso Gatto prize with the collection Impaginato per affetto.

The preface is by, who, first, recognized the artistic talent of Pier Paolo Pasolini, positively appreciates the poetry of Beppe Costa, in which beautifully expresses the pain of living, the need to love and the difficulty of harmonizing this with the reality of another world.

The book will be presented in different school, The book will be presented in different schools in common with the same Spagnoletti and, in Rome, from Giorgio Bassani.

His poems were read by actors like, Arnoldo Foà, Viviana Piccolo, Sara Pusceddu e Valeria Di Francesco and set to music, among others, by da Giovanni Renzo, Alessandra Celletti, Nicola Alesini, Giuliano Perticara, Mario Pettenati, and Gianluca Attanasio.

Fascinated by the musical innovations, Beppe Costa recorded a cd with Giovanni Renzo.

This experience led him quickly to make visual poetry with photos and music videos mostly of René Aubry and Alessandra Celletti.

He rediscovers and publishes the stories of Luigi Capuana: Si conta e si racconta (Pellicanolibri, 1989) and a volume that Federico De Roberto dedicated to his city, Catania.

He also publishes the translated texts of the contemporary French philosopher Gaston Bachelard.

From a meeting with Jodorowsky, the idea of publishing the book on the Panic Movement, a surrealist movement

founded by Alejandro Jodorowsky with Fernando Arrabal and Roland Topor.

From 1992 Pellicanolibri becomes a great library on the edge of Rome.

Here will reach authors from all parts of Italy and not only.

He inaugurate, with Beatrice Niccolai, in 2008, the exhibition Malaspinarte.

In 2008 the encounter with the poet and composer Mario Salis contributes to greater synergy to the Italian edition of the Teranova Festival, who was born in France and founded by Mario Salis under the leadership of Fernando Arrabal, has already seen the participation of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Patrice Leconte and of the same Arrabal.

From January 2008, begins the tour of poetry and music Anche ora che la luna.

Initially, in Salento with the composer Giovanni Renzo at the piano, after alone and performing throughout Italy in places like the Literary Cafe in Rome and the Civic Theatre in Sassari.

In 2009, began a collaboration with the French singer, creating the show Ho ancora voglia di sognare, interpreting poems in their context and in the encounter with the songs of Leo Ferré, Édith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens.

In 2009, gets under way the new show di me, di altri, ancora, touring around Italy (taken from the eponymous book forthcoming).

An event of enormous importance in March 2010 for the cycle Beppe Costa meetings, Fernando Arrabal in Rome, guest of spent two days with the Poets From Space, a group of poets from different Italian regions, chosen by Fabio Barcellandi.

Came out in June 2010, for Multimedia Publishing (Casa della Poesia from Baronissi – Salerno), his new collection of poems Anche ora che la luna, with a letter from Adele Cambria and.

From 2011 began the partnership with the poet Stefania Battistella creating the new reading/show: di me, di altri, ancora.

This tour will continue up to 2011.