Chance readings this weekend in William Alexander's introduction to
Roberto Sanesi's "Information Report" (Cape Goliard, 1970) seem to me to
touch, obliquely at least, on some recent list topics.
"Sanesi has asserted his opposition to the poetry of the Italian
hermetics and their followers, a poetry, that is, of "purity"...
uncontaminated by anything "non-poetry" (philosophy, politics,
economics) and unhindered by any necessity of being socially relevant or
useful...He also opposes any poetry...that is aprioristic or
ideological, that has a fixed concept of experience, form or philosophy.
*****
[Alexander introduces Agosti's concept of a poetry of dynamic realism.]
"Such poetry operates through "unitary analysis", that is, through
simultaneous comprehension of every aspect, internal and external,of
subject and object and of the time and space they occupy...Thus it
[poetry] is in "perpetual relation." In Sanesi's words, "to be in
perpetual relation means, for the poet, to be conscious at every moment
of one's own "I" as well as of the world in which this "I" lives (this,
for Banfi, is the dynamic essence of man), so that the disorder by which
man is always...surrounded can be ordered in absolute unity and absolute
freedom."
*****
"...To be truly avant-garde, according to Sanesi, is to avoid closed,
dogmatic conclusions, is to feel a tension towards the future, to
increase in awareness and to evolve a series of decisions directed
towards the end of founding new and significant hypotheses. Poetry "is a
continual process of approximation to the present understood as the sum
of times; an infinite attempt to adhere to the world of one's own life,
to touch it and verify it..."
*****
"On first reading...Sanesi's poetry will seem "obscure"...but the
apparent obscurity has the function "of distancing the superficial
reader".
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Cheers, Pete.
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