Farsi del male con la lingua

Abstract

The essay is a personal testimony on the sidelines of the conference on poetry and rubble held in Freiburg (proceedings published in No. 14 of «L’Ospite Ingrato»). After a brief survey of the presence of the theme of rubble in his own poetic production, the author dwells on issues of free metrics of the immediate contemporary, which appears characterized by an increase in the distance between accents, in the direction of the spoken language. In this context, however, the endecasyllabic tradition – but also the more recent tradition of other verses canonized in the twentieth century, such as the Pascolian novenary for amphibrachi or the anapestic decasyllable – is found split into rhythmic cells of traditional aura, well interiorized in the poets’ memory. This situation, where the rhythmic instance prevails over the metric one, promotes, and makes perceived as unmarked in the sequence, some measures of verse that once ‘jarred’, thanks to some rhythmic “concordances of pace.” Authors cited: Stefano Dal Bianco, Beppe Salvia, Silvia Bre, Antonio Riccardi, Umberto Fiori, Massimo Gezzi.