Original upload date: Sat, 06 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Thu, 09 Dec 2021 02:12:15 GMT
Donald Perrygrove Sinclair (1935-2015) lived in Liguria from the 1980s, teaching English privately and writing a novel that never materialized. He spent his last years in Piazza delle Erbe, Genoa, a p
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opular hangout where he became a local legend and was publicly mourned. A poem of celebration, “Don è morto,” is included in Julian Stannard’s volume Sottoripa. Poesie genovesi (Genoa: Il Canneto, 2018): “Don is leaving Piazza of the Herbs. / In 30 years he drank fifty-four thousand / and seven hundred gin and tonics…”. This video was made in Rapallo in Summer 1987 (not 1998, as mistakenly stated in title).—M.B.
