Erminia, what you say below is very interesting. I do wonder,
though, why, in such poetic circumstances, you would stamp
these emergent other voices with the legal denomination of your
empirical person? Have you ever considered seeing what might
happen if, as Pessoa did, for example, you treated them as actual
authors, with public authority *of* and responsibility *for* their
voices? There might be other, further, openings into unsuspected
regions-- in other words, these voices might have more to say, and
more surprising ways of saying, if not framed as conventional
Browningesque personae.
Kent
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Erminia said:
I say this to help limit a too close identification of these personas
which I let speak through my poems with me, as the author. I
sometimes
even assume a masculine gender, or enter a character of an age
dramatically distant from mine, referring psychological and
physiological
states and events which are intended to be utterly alien from what I
normally experience. I guess I have found this mode to step out of
that 'self' that is supposed to be my major concern, as a poet,
and,
consequently, relate about other people’s feelings. The fact is that
most
often, in my view, other people's feeling are closer to our own than
we
wish to see. This is why the title of my first collection was Noi-Altri
(We-Others).
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