Guido Monte

Guido Monte (born 1962) is an Italian writer and poet. In his recent works, he employs linguistic blending in the search for meaningful and archetypal relations between distant cultures. His works and translations have been published by international magazines (as Words without Borders, Swans Commentary, and Ars Interpres). On his blending experiments, he uses also Japanese, Sanskrit, Sheng and languages of ethnic groups in Kenya. On the way of Jorge Luis Borges, Ezra Pound’s Cantos and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Monte thinks that “…if we admit that some archetypal ideas are common among our planet inhabitants, then we can state, in the sense meant by Borges, that just one “Book” has been written, as an evidence of the original and...