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- Title
Distances of the Father, Instances of Italian Poetry (1976–2004).
- Authors
Livorni, Ernesto
- Abstract
A turning point in Italian poetry was the publication of the controversial anthology La parola innamorata (1978), which showcased some of the most important poets today (Conte, Cucchi, De Angelis, Magrelli, Viviani). Some of them, Cucchi and De Angelis in particular, chose the figure of the father as an allegorical meter for their poetry in an attempt to measure, so to speak, the distance separating the self from poetry. A poet from the following generation, Antonio Riccardi, gives a new spin to this poetic strategy in his two collections of poems. The article discusses works by the three poets Cucchi, De Angelis and Riccardi, and examines their own elaborations of the father-stance, one of the aspects of poetry and poetics running throughout their collections.
- Subjects
ITALY; ITALIAN poetry; CUCCHI, Maurizio; POETRY (Literary form); LITERATURE collections; FATHERS in literature; FATHER figures
- Publication
Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2011, Vol 47, Issue 4, p408
- ISSN
0015-8518
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fmls/cqr027