Contemporary Italian Poetry

Overview of modern Italian poetry, article by Franco Buffoni, poet, translator, professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Cassino, distinguishes six major different directions: Post Neo-avant-garde; Neo-Orphic and/or Neo-Hermetic; Civil Poetry; Mannerisms; Heirs of the Lombard line; and Dialect Poetry.

POEMS BY Franco Buffoni

• CARMELITE SISTER
• GREATER GERMANY
• IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS IN ...
• I'D LIKE YOUR WORLD OF PAINTED PUPP...
• LAFCADIO
• LIKE A POLYPTYCH
• OF POETRY
• TECHNIQUES OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
• THE PERGUSA SPEEDWAY

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The Job of the Poet by Elisa Biagini

To paraphrase poet Paul Celan, poetry serves to shed light on inside of ourselves: to understand the world and to understand each other. I use writing in order to allow the hidden movements of things to emerge, to view the secret life found under the skin. In this light, I have chosen to observe the body, which becomes the metaphor, the lens though which to read the world, a microcosm of fascinating workings

POEMS BY Elisa Biagini

• (SPIT OUT BY THE FOREST
• CHILD IN THE
• I TRANSLATE YOUR LIFE
• IN THE VELVET SHELL
• LOSE YOURSELF, CHILD
• MENDED NERVES
• MORGUE
• THE DARKNESS DRIES UP
• THE VOICE DOES NOT CONNECT, DOES NOT
• THROUGH THE PATH
• TIGHT SO
• WHEN YOU DISCOVER THOSE LONG CUTS
• WHY
• YOU SHOW ME YOUR WOUNDS, AS A SOLDIER
  

(just warming up in anticipation of a collaborative foray into poetry Italian style)