URL for TRANSFERENCE FOR DIALOGUE 2002
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Dear Friends,
may I take this opportunity, while you are engaged in defining what is
poetry, for you, to ask what is the future of dialogue through poetry.
In a week time, all the forthcoming poetry events for Dialogue are about
to take place all over the world.
Our efforts at dialoguing constitute an attempt to show that the
traditional goals of poets and their poetical deeds are not misguided in
their project to push the Self as the producer towards the Other, his/her
listener. These efforts lead poets to articulate and aim at producing an
echo effect as voices which mirror, and refract the world which is outside
the their universe of words.
Poetry is always revelation: Ungaretti said that poetry, as such, is true
only when it carries a secret. This secret within our verbal universes,
which we sense in another poet's work is found to be unutterable and
incommunicable through words solely. Poetry is not the mind dialoguing
with itself, but indeed the drive to pass this secret to other people,
knowing the difficulty of such endeavor.
We should prefer such dialogic forms of poetry to the mind's soliloquies.
In doing so, we would discover the advantage of dialogic and democratic
rhetoric as a ‘double-mirror’ held up against the illusionary sovereignty
of reclusive authorship. Elements of such interlocution are present in
Rousseau’s Dialogues where death is replaced by the most poetical idea of
all, succession:
Who was alive before you?
My father and my mother.
Who was alive before them?
Their father and their mother.
Who will be alive after you?
My children.
Who will be alive after them?
Their children…..
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Erminia
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