Tiziano Fratus
http://www.homoradix.com

Italy

Italy

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Tiziano Fratus (Bergamo, 1975) is a tree seeker. He crosses the landscape searching for old-growth trees and ancient forests, which he counts, measures, photographs and writes about. Encountering the first thousand-year-old sequoias in California he coined the concept of “Homo Radix/Root Man” and “treeography,” which he developed in a number of books, including the Manuale del perfetto cercatore d’alberi [Manual of the Perfect Tree Seeker] (Kowalski/Feltrinelli), Il sussurro degli alberi [The Whisper of the Trees] (Ediciclo), L’Italia è un bosco [Italy is a Wood] and Il libro delle foreste scolpite [The Book of Sculpted Forests] (both with Laterza). He edits the column Il cercatore di alberi [The Tree Seeker] for the Turinese daily La Stampa. He guides hikes and trips for people seeking century-old trees and host exhibits of his photographs. He has published various collections of poetry in Italy and other countries (United States, Brazil, Argentina, Singapore, Switzerland); his compositions have been translated into seven languages and published in national and international journals including Gradiva, Poetry International, Les citadelles, Tabacaria, DiVersos, and Studium. His most recent collection of poetry is titled Un quaderno di radici [A Notebook of Roots] and signaled the return of Feltrinelli to contemporary poetry. He lives in a village at the edge of the plains where the mountains begin.