http://www.fupress.com/catalogo/il-pensiero-della-poesia/3375 Cristina Caracchini, Enrico Minardi (a cura di), Il pensiero della poesia: da Leopardi ai contemporanei. Letture dal mondo di poeti italiani, ISBN 978-88-6453-479-4 (print)... more
http://www.fupress.com/catalogo/il-pensiero-della-poesia/3375 Cristina Caracchini, Enrico Minardi (a cura di), Il pensiero della poesia: da Leopardi ai contemporanei. Letture dal mondo di poeti italiani, ISBN 978-88-6453-479-4 (print) ISBN 978-88-6453-480-0 (online PDF) ISBN 978-88-6453-481-7 (online EPUB)
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... DOI 10.1179/016146211X12942386119039 italian culture, Vol. xxix No. 1, March, 2011, 1836 Da Pasque a Meteo: intersezioni di soggetto, linguaggio, e paesaggio nei versi diAndrea Zanzotto Federica Santini Kennesaw State University, GA,... more
... DOI 10.1179/016146211X12942386119039 italian culture, Vol. xxix No. 1, March, 2011, 1836 Da Pasque a Meteo: intersezioni di soggetto, linguaggio, e paesaggio nei versi diAndrea Zanzotto Federica Santini Kennesaw State University, GA, USA ...
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... Considerazioni sull'Argutezza: il capitolo III del Cannocchiale aristotelico di Emanuele Tesauro. Autores: Federica Santini; Localización: Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, ISSN 0392-9345, Nº 22, 2001 , págs.... more
... Considerazioni sull'Argutezza: il capitolo III del Cannocchiale aristotelico di Emanuele Tesauro. Autores: Federica Santini; Localización: Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, ISSN 0392-9345, Nº 22, 2001 , págs. 69-88. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...
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Acknowledgments Preface: Building an Aspirational Culture through Collaborative Inquiry Sarah R. Robbins Introduction Federica Santini, Sabine H. Smith, and Sarah R. Robbins I. Memoirs on Bridging Cultures Chapter 1: Professing in a... more
Acknowledgments Preface: Building an Aspirational Culture through Collaborative Inquiry Sarah R. Robbins Introduction Federica Santini, Sabine H. Smith, and Sarah R. Robbins I. Memoirs on Bridging Cultures Chapter 1: Professing in a Foreign Tongue: A Central European Perspective on English Studies Katarina Gephardt Chapter 2: East Meets West: An Asian Woman Teacher Educator's Journey Enacting Global Pedagogy in the American South Guichun Zong Chapter 3: Perfectly Ambivalent: How German Am I? Sabine H. Smith Chapter 4: The Stranger in the Classroom: The Professional Acculturation of Three Romanian Scholars Darina Lepadatu, Cristina Gheorghiu-Stephens, and Gilbert Lepadatu Chapter 5: Disclosure, Dialogue, and Coming of Age in the Academy Gertrude Tinker Sachs, Pier Angeli Junor Clarke, Wanjira Kinuthia, Ewa McGrail, and Geeta Verma Chapter 6: Language is the House of Being Federica Santini II. Responses Response 1: Race, Identity, and International Faculty on US Campuses Satya P. Mohanty, Cornell University Response 2: In Defense of Encapsulated Marginality Edward K. Chan, Aichi University, Japan Response 3: Alien Alliances: An Austrian Academic Reads US Scholars' Stories Ulla Kriebernegg, University of Graz, Austria Response 4: In Pursuit of Excellence, Diversity, and Globalization: The Art of Leveraging International Assets in Academia Steve O. Michael, Arcadia University Response 5: Still Becoming Rosangela Boyd, Texas Christian University III. Building an Aspirational Culture Epilogue: Synthesizing Stories and Making Connections Lori Howard, Sarah R. Robbins, Sabine H. Smith, and Bridging Cultures writers Questions: Reflection, Discussion, and Cultural Change Federica Santini and Sabine H. Smith Index About the Contributors
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This is a pair of excerpts from the anthology <em>Bridging Cultures: International Women Faculty Transforming the US Academy</em>. The book is composed of a series of memoirs by foreign-born women scholars working in various... more
This is a pair of excerpts from the anthology <em>Bridging Cultures: International Women Faculty Transforming the US Academy</em>. The book is composed of a series of memoirs by foreign-born women scholars working in various disciplines, in which they reflect on their personal experiences as foreigners in US academia. The introduction by Federica Santini, Sabine H. Smith, and Sarah R. Robbins underlines the crucially feminist nature of "standpoint epistemology"—that is, the identifying and critiquing of one's own particular viewpoint and "positioning." Sabine Smith's contribution proceeds to recount her own experience as a foreign-born woman scholar, and how she both contributes to the education of her students through her understanding of her native German language and culture and is herself shaped by her position as an outsider in the United States—Smith glories in the sense of liberation her status offers her.
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This set of exercises for Elementary Italian I was created through a Round Twelve Textbook Transformation Grant. Through text, images, audio, and video, these exercises cover the scope and sequence of Kennesaw State University\u27s... more
This set of exercises for Elementary Italian I was created through a Round Twelve Textbook Transformation Grant. Through text, images, audio, and video, these exercises cover the scope and sequence of Kennesaw State University\u27s Elementary Italian I course
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This Grants Collection for Elementary Italian I & II was created under a Round Twelve ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly... more
This Grants Collection for Elementary Italian I & II was created under a Round Twelve ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process. Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials: Linked Syllabus Initial Proposal Final Reporthttps://oer.galileo.usg.edu/languages-collections/1004/thumbnail.jp
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Il volume ha il pregio di parlare chiaro e di servirsi degli strumenti affilatissimi della semantica storica, della stilistica e della metricologia, per mettere in luce da un lato le peculiarità di autori cardine della ricerca poetica nel... more
Il volume ha il pregio di parlare chiaro e di servirsi degli strumenti affilatissimi della semantica storica, della stilistica e della metricologia, per mettere in luce da un lato le peculiarità di autori cardine della ricerca poetica nel secondo Novecento: Pagliarani, Rosselli, Zanzotto, Emilio Villa, i poeti della linea lombarda e il primo Cucchi - dall\u27altro, di rendere plausibile affinità insperate, quando non addirittura osteggiate dagli stessi protagonisti di queste pagine. Cucchi e Villa in un unico ventaglio? Zanzotto e Pagliarani? Una campionatura di comportamenti poetici prima ancora che una galleria di ritratti, una disanima scientifica, ma molto umana, del teatro poetico italiano. Con una prefazione del poeta Luigi Ballerini.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/facbooks2013/1004/thumbnail.jp
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This set of exercises for Elementary Italian II was created through a Round Twelve Textbook Transformation Grant. Through text, images, audio, and video, these exercises cover the scope and sequence of Kennesaw State University\u27s... more
This set of exercises for Elementary Italian II was created through a Round Twelve Textbook Transformation Grant. Through text, images, audio, and video, these exercises cover the scope and sequence of Kennesaw State University\u27s Elementary Italian II course
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This Grants Collection for Elementary Italian I & II was created under a Round Twelve ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly... more
This Grants Collection for Elementary Italian I & II was created under a Round Twelve ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process. Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials: Linked Syllabus Initial Proposal Final Reporthttps://oer.galileo.usg.edu/languages-collections/1004/thumbnail.jp
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This set of exercises for Elementary Italian I was created through a Round Twelve Textbook Transformation Grant. Through text, images, audio, and video, these exercises cover the scope and sequence of Kennesaw State University\\u27s... more
This set of exercises for Elementary Italian I was created through a Round Twelve Textbook Transformation Grant. Through text, images, audio, and video, these exercises cover the scope and sequence of Kennesaw State University\\u27s Elementary Italian I course
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This Grants Collection for Elementary Italian I & II was created under a Round Twelve ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly... more
This Grants Collection for Elementary Italian I & II was created under a Round Twelve ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process. Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials: Linked Syllabus Initial Proposal Final Reporthttps://oer.galileo.usg.edu/languages-collections/1004/thumbnail.jp
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This textbook for Elementary Italian Language and Culture I & II and Intermediate Italian Language and Culture I was developed and revised under a Round 17 Mini-Grant.https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/languages-textbooks/1003/thumbnail.jp
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This set of exercises for Elementary Italian I was created through a Round Twelve Textbook Transformation Grant. Through text, images, audio, and video, these exercises cover the scope and sequence of Kennesaw State University\u27s... more
This set of exercises for Elementary Italian I was created through a Round Twelve Textbook Transformation Grant. Through text, images, audio, and video, these exercises cover the scope and sequence of Kennesaw State University\u27s Elementary Italian I course
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This set of exercises for Elementary Italian II was created through a Round Twelve Textbook Transformation Grant. Through text, images, audio, and video, these exercises cover the scope and sequence of Kennesaw State University\\u27s... more
This set of exercises for Elementary Italian II was created through a Round Twelve Textbook Transformation Grant. Through text, images, audio, and video, these exercises cover the scope and sequence of Kennesaw State University\\u27s Elementary Italian II course
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http://www.fupress.com/catalogo/il-pensiero-della-poesia/3375 Cristina Caracchini, Enrico Minardi (a cura di), Il pensiero della poesia: da Leopardi ai contemporanei. Letture dal mondo di poeti italiani, ISBN 978-88-6453-479-4 (print)... more
http://www.fupress.com/catalogo/il-pensiero-della-poesia/3375 Cristina Caracchini, Enrico Minardi (a cura di), Il pensiero della poesia: da Leopardi ai contemporanei. Letture dal mondo di poeti italiani, ISBN 978-88-6453-479-4 (print) ISBN 978-88-6453-480-0 (online PDF) ISBN 978-88-6453-481-7 (online EPUB)
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The project consists of a study of selected works by two authors who have not been connected or compared before, experimental poet Elio Pagliarani and noir writer Giorgio Scerbanenco. Specifically, the study explores several coinciding... more
The project consists of a study of selected works by two authors who have not been connected or compared before, experimental poet Elio Pagliarani and noir writer Giorgio Scerbanenco. Specifically, the study explores several coinciding representations of lower-middle class women in Pagliarani’s poem La ragazza Carla and Scerbanenco’s collection of short stories Milano Calibro 9. Through references to existing scholarship on each author and analytical readings of the texts, the study aims to demonstrate how the two writers, who were active at the same time in Milan, showed much attention to class and gender issues in their work, and thus obtained similar results through very different stylistic approaches. In addition, the study explores the underlying reasons for which Pagliarani and Scerbanenco chose to focus on realistic representations of Milanese women within their distinct narrative scopes. Finally, the article has the secondary goal of breaking the canon by focusing on two gen...
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... Considerazioni sull&#x27;Argutezza: il capitolo III del Cannocchiale aristotelico di Emanuele Tesauro. Autores: Federica Santini; Localización: Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, ISSN 0392-9345, Nº 22, 2001 , págs.... more
... Considerazioni sull&#x27;Argutezza: il capitolo III del Cannocchiale aristotelico di Emanuele Tesauro. Autores: Federica Santini; Localización: Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, ISSN 0392-9345, Nº 22, 2001 , págs. 69-88. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...
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Acknowledgments Preface: Building an Aspirational Culture through Collaborative Inquiry Sarah R. Robbins Introduction Federica Santini, Sabine H. Smith, and Sarah R. Robbins I. Memoirs on Bridging Cultures Chapter 1: Professing in a... more
Acknowledgments Preface: Building an Aspirational Culture through Collaborative Inquiry Sarah R. Robbins Introduction Federica Santini, Sabine H. Smith, and Sarah R. Robbins I. Memoirs on Bridging Cultures Chapter 1: Professing in a Foreign Tongue: A Central European Perspective on English Studies Katarina Gephardt Chapter 2: East Meets West: An Asian Woman Teacher Educator's Journey Enacting Global Pedagogy in the American South Guichun Zong Chapter 3: Perfectly Ambivalent: How German Am I? Sabine H. Smith Chapter 4: The Stranger in the Classroom: The Professional Acculturation of Three Romanian Scholars Darina Lepadatu, Cristina Gheorghiu-Stephens, and Gilbert Lepadatu Chapter 5: Disclosure, Dialogue, and Coming of Age in the Academy Gertrude Tinker Sachs, Pier Angeli Junor Clarke, Wanjira Kinuthia, Ewa McGrail, and Geeta Verma Chapter 6: Language is the House of Being Federica Santini II. Responses Response 1: Race, Identity, and International Faculty on US Campuses Satya P. ...
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... Considerazioni sull&#x27;Argutezza: il capitolo III del Cannocchiale aristotelico di Emanuele Tesauro. Autores: Federica Santini; Localización: Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, ISSN 0392-9345, Nº 22, 2001 , págs.... more
... Considerazioni sull&#x27;Argutezza: il capitolo III del Cannocchiale aristotelico di Emanuele Tesauro. Autores: Federica Santini; Localización: Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, ISSN 0392-9345, Nº 22, 2001 , págs. 69-88. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...
&quot;From our present hell of narcissism, populated by selfies and reality TV, it is difficult to imagine a time and place when poetry mattered to such a degree that it could make the front pages of newspapers and magazines. It is... more
&quot;From our present hell of narcissism, populated by selfies and reality TV, it is difficult to imagine a time and place when poetry mattered to such a degree that it could make the front pages of newspapers and magazines. It is even harder to fathom that such well-known poets would advocate, in their theoretical prose (not to mention practice in their verse), a conscious and deliberate reduction of the lyrical &quot;I,&quot; in an attempt to remove their subjectivity from their works so that Language could express itself (more about this in a moment). And yet, such an unbelievably far-fetched reality existed: in Italy, roughly from around the end of the 1950s, all the way to the end of the 1970s. Granted, most of these poets continued to write and publish well beyond this time frame, but the conditions had changed, the audiences weren&#39;t as responsive and, in short, a whole era had come to an end. Federica Santini, with her lucid, well-argued, and illuminating monograph, takes us back to that time. At the center of her research is a crucial distinction, one that became a central concern for poets and poetry toward the end of the 1800s and that has remained productive ever since: the divide between &quot;I&quot; and &quot;subject.&quot; The first is the individuality of the single poets, their historically and biographically determined personalities. The latter is a function of language, as it emerges from the poem itself, independent of the author&#39;s will, inscribed in the words themselves. [...]&quot; [Gianluca Rizzo, Italica, Vol. 94, N. 1]
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English-language translations of excerpts from Il signore d'oro (1986) by Vivian Lamarque.
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Inspired by the work of Plath as well as by several international women poets, such as multilingual poet Amelia Rosselli or the Argentinian writer Alfonsina Storni, who addressed trauma and impermanence in their writing, the poems aim to... more
Inspired by the work of Plath as well as by several international women poets, such as multilingual poet Amelia Rosselli or the Argentinian writer Alfonsina Storni, who addressed trauma and impermanence in their writing, the poems aim to re-create the lost threads that emanate from Plath's work. At times, this only implies a correspondence in the Goethian sense of the term, while at others, the resulting effect is a clashing of imagery reminiscent of Alexey Kondakov's paintings.
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The project consists of a study of selected works by two authors who have not been connected or compared before, experimental poet Elio Pagliarani and noir writer Giorgio Scerbanenco. Specifically, the study explores several coinciding... more
The project consists of a study of selected works by two authors who have not been connected or compared before, experimental poet Elio Pagliarani and noir writer Giorgio Scerbanenco. Specifically, the study explores several coinciding representations of lower-middle class women in Pagliarani’s poem La ragazza Carla and Scerbanenco’s collection of short stories Milano Calibro 9. Through references to existing scholarship on each author and analytical readings of the texts, the study aims to demonstrate how the two writers, who were active at the same time in Milan, showed much attention to class and gender issues in their work, and thus obtained similar results through very different stylistic approaches. In addition, the study explores the underlying reasons for which Pagliarani and Scerbanenco chose to focus on realistic representations of Milanese women within their distinct narrative scopes. Finally, the article has the secondary goal of breaking the canon by focusing on two genres, experimental poetry and popular literature, which are rarely if ever considered together.
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http://www.fupress.com/catalogo/il-pensiero-della-poesia/3375 Cristina Caracchini, Enrico Minardi (a cura di), Il pensiero della poesia: da Leopardi ai contemporanei. Letture dal mondo di poeti italiani, ISBN 978-88-6453-479-4 (print)... more
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Cristina Caracchini, Enrico Minardi (a cura di), Il pensiero della poesia: da Leopardi ai contemporanei. Letture dal mondo di poeti italiani, ISBN 978-88-6453-479-4 (print) ISBN 978-88-6453-480-0 (online PDF) ISBN 978-88-6453-481-7 (online EPUB)
Cristina Caracchini, Enrico Minardi (a cura di), Il pensiero della poesia: da Leopardi ai contemporanei. Letture dal mondo di poeti italiani, ISBN 978-88-6453-479-4 (print) ISBN 978-88-6453-480-0 (online PDF) ISBN 978-88-6453-481-7 (online EPUB)
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In queste pagine Federica Santini interpreta una caratteristica centrale della poesia dei Novissimi, la riduzione dell'io, entro la particolare prospettiva della poesia di Amelia Rosselli, dando letture di alcuni testi alla luce dei... more
In queste pagine Federica Santini interpreta una caratteristica centrale della poesia dei Novissimi, la riduzione dell'io, entro la particolare prospettiva della poesia di Amelia Rosselli, dando letture di alcuni testi alla luce dei riferimenti a poeti di primo piano del Novecento europeo, come Eugenio Montale e Paul Celan.
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... DOI 10.1179/016146211X12942386119039 italian culture, Vol. xxix No. 1, March, 2011, 1836 Da Pasque a Meteo: intersezioni di soggetto, linguaggio, e paesaggio nei versi diAndrea Zanzotto Federica Santini Kennesaw State University, GA,... more
... DOI 10.1179/016146211X12942386119039 italian culture, Vol. xxix No. 1, March, 2011, 1836 Da Pasque a Meteo: intersezioni di soggetto, linguaggio, e paesaggio nei versi diAndrea Zanzotto Federica Santini Kennesaw State University, GA, USA ...
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... Considerazioni sull&#x27;Argutezza: il capitolo III del Cannocchiale aristotelico di Emanuele Tesauro. Autores: Federica Santini; Localización: Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, ISSN 0392-9345, Nº 22, 2001 , págs.... more
... Considerazioni sull&#x27;Argutezza: il capitolo III del Cannocchiale aristotelico di Emanuele Tesauro. Autores: Federica Santini; Localización: Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, ISSN 0392-9345, Nº 22, 2001 , págs. 69-88. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...
When you start digging in Santini’s poetry, you have no idea of what you might be unearthing, but can rest assured that none of the findings will be less than exciting. Her compressed and high voltage syntagms move sharply and elegantly... more
When you start digging in Santini’s poetry, you have no idea of what you might be unearthing, but can rest assured that none of the findings will be less than exciting. Her compressed and high voltage syntagms move sharply and elegantly in a sea of intuitions, each one of which claims exclusive attention, thus undermining any attempt at turning metaphors into similitudes or objective correlatives. If Eliot’s April is merely a cruel month, Santini’s May is a month of “knives in the water” (Polansky docet) and the frozen landscapes that appear at almost regular intervals in her poems bear the mark of an indomitable struggle against “milk-words / [that] spoil fast in the fading light / of the process / overgrowth of sense.” In a world where writing obtains all too often below the zero-degree line, every sequence of this Unearthed is a powerful and moving testimony of what poetry can do to liberate language from the curse of sterile repetitions, restoring for us all the pleasure of seeking, and exchanging, instances of a formerly unsuspected reality.
Luigi Ballerini, Professor Emeritus, UCLA, author of Cephalonia and Eccetera, E
Federica Santini’s Unearthed is a stunning collection of poems that dig deep into the earth and into your being. It brilliantly, poetically asks us to go beyond having casual conversations with the earth, ourselves, and each other in order to touch, smell, feel what is underneath. This is where we come alive. This is poetry at its best.
Jacinta V. White, author of Resurrecting the Bones, publishing editor of Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing
The vibrant poems of Federica Santini’s Unearthed explore loss, yearning, and transformation in worlds rich with imagery and metaphors where “In the garden unruly / weed-foxes grow feisty” and “The grass of wanting has sharp blades.” Santini’s poetry dauntlessly uncovers what is hidden, from creatures that bite and sing, to recluse and rhizome bodies, and the shape-shifting compound water—“Make it rise from twisted veins / with forked rod, bifurcated tongue lapping…” In this remarkable collection, Federica Santini is the diviner.
Jules Jacob, author of The Glass Sponge
Luigi Ballerini, Professor Emeritus, UCLA, author of Cephalonia and Eccetera, E
Federica Santini’s Unearthed is a stunning collection of poems that dig deep into the earth and into your being. It brilliantly, poetically asks us to go beyond having casual conversations with the earth, ourselves, and each other in order to touch, smell, feel what is underneath. This is where we come alive. This is poetry at its best.
Jacinta V. White, author of Resurrecting the Bones, publishing editor of Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing
The vibrant poems of Federica Santini’s Unearthed explore loss, yearning, and transformation in worlds rich with imagery and metaphors where “In the garden unruly / weed-foxes grow feisty” and “The grass of wanting has sharp blades.” Santini’s poetry dauntlessly uncovers what is hidden, from creatures that bite and sing, to recluse and rhizome bodies, and the shape-shifting compound water—“Make it rise from twisted veins / with forked rod, bifurcated tongue lapping…” In this remarkable collection, Federica Santini is the diviner.
Jules Jacob, author of The Glass Sponge
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Annotated, English language edition of the anthology I Novissimi. Poetry for the Sixties. "At the time this anthology was being conceived an explicit tendency towards a new poetics did not exist. A group of poets had not rallied around... more
Annotated, English language edition of the anthology I Novissimi. Poetry for the Sixties.
"At the time this anthology was being conceived an explicit tendency towards a new poetics did not exist. A group of poets had not rallied around the project of a new style. Nor did I ever have the intention to put one together. I simply had identified the formative nucleus shared by certain authors, extremely different one from the other, who had arrived at their own programmatic ideas independent of each other. I called that nucleus: schizomorphic vision. This means: to intensify the expression of discontinuity in the imaginative process, to employ a ruptured syntax and weave dissonant propositions within a completely semanticized metric texture. It means: to give a rhythm to heterogeneous lexicons, to the short circuiting of events, to the perpetually disturbed nexuses of reality. Naturally, this was the critical invention that enabled me to put together five authors as disparate as we were; and that enabled me to write my best poems after the anthology appeared. The schizomorphic vision was not an expedient, was not a gimmick. It was the only serious way to tie method and madness into a single knot. The only psychological, psychiatric, philosophical, historical way possible. And poetically appropriate."--Alfredo Giuliani
"At the time this anthology was being conceived an explicit tendency towards a new poetics did not exist. A group of poets had not rallied around the project of a new style. Nor did I ever have the intention to put one together. I simply had identified the formative nucleus shared by certain authors, extremely different one from the other, who had arrived at their own programmatic ideas independent of each other. I called that nucleus: schizomorphic vision. This means: to intensify the expression of discontinuity in the imaginative process, to employ a ruptured syntax and weave dissonant propositions within a completely semanticized metric texture. It means: to give a rhythm to heterogeneous lexicons, to the short circuiting of events, to the perpetually disturbed nexuses of reality. Naturally, this was the critical invention that enabled me to put together five authors as disparate as we were; and that enabled me to write my best poems after the anthology appeared. The schizomorphic vision was not an expedient, was not a gimmick. It was the only serious way to tie method and madness into a single knot. The only psychological, psychiatric, philosophical, historical way possible. And poetically appropriate."--Alfredo Giuliani
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"From our present hell of narcissism, populated by selfies and reality TV, it is difficult to imagine a time and place when poetry mattered to such a degree that it could make the front pages of newspapers and magazines. It is even harder... more
"From our present hell of narcissism, populated by selfies and reality TV, it is difficult to imagine a time and place when poetry mattered to such a degree that it could make the front pages of newspapers and magazines. It is even harder to fathom that such well-known poets would advocate, in their theoretical prose (not to mention practice in their verse), a conscious and deliberate reduction of the lyrical "I," in an attempt to remove their subjectivity from their works so that Language could express itself (more about this in a moment). And yet, such an unbelievably far-fetched reality existed: in Italy, roughly from around the end of the 1950s, all the way to the end of the 1970s. Granted, most of these poets continued to write and publish well beyond this time frame, but the conditions had changed, the audiences weren't as responsive and, in short, a whole era had come to an end.
Federica Santini, with her lucid, well-argued, and illuminating monograph, takes us back to that time. At the center of her research is a crucial distinction, one that became a central concern for poets and poetry toward the end of the 1800s and that has remained productive ever since: the divide between "I" and "subject." The first is the individuality of the single poets, their historically and biographically determined personalities. The latter is a function of language, as it emerges from the poem itself, independent of the author's will, inscribed in the words themselves. [...]"
[Gianluca Rizzo, Italica, Vol. 94, N. 1]
Federica Santini, with her lucid, well-argued, and illuminating monograph, takes us back to that time. At the center of her research is a crucial distinction, one that became a central concern for poets and poetry toward the end of the 1800s and that has remained productive ever since: the divide between "I" and "subject." The first is the individuality of the single poets, their historically and biographically determined personalities. The latter is a function of language, as it emerges from the poem itself, independent of the author's will, inscribed in the words themselves. [...]"
[Gianluca Rizzo, Italica, Vol. 94, N. 1]
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Review of Rossana Rossanda, Questo corpo che mi abita.