About the Author

Tiziano Fratus is a bergamasc-flemish Match Maker and sometimes Match Seller. His fire has been replicated in North and South America, in Western and Eastern Europe, in South East Asia. He has published ten series of boxes of matches in the country of Pasolini and Caravaggio, seven overseas in Lisbon, Bratislava, Lugano, Brooklyn, Singapore, Edinburgh, Buenos Aires. In 2010 new boxes of his matches will be issued in Brazil, France, Argentina, Spain, Viet Nam and Canada. He lives with four cats at the foot of the Italian Western Alps near two little lakes that in the coldest winters frozen. He direct the activities of the Manifattura Torino Poesia, a factory promoting new flames & verses in the region. CREATURING is the first selection of his poetry for USA readers.