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    Poetry on Stage
    The Theatre of the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde

    Gianluca Rizzo (Author)

    9781487506667

    Hardback, published 26 August 2020

    472 pages, 1 b&w illustration
    23.5 x 16 x 2.7 cm, 0.77 kg

    "The copious literature on the poetic Neoavanguardia has long obscured a clearly necessary analysis of parallel experiences of the same authors. This monograph decentralises the anthologies that have now been canonized, and to which the critical attention is almost utterly devoted, and has the potential to inaugurate a more diffuse consideration of the understudied theatre (re-)writings."

    - Marzia D’Amico, University of Oxford (Annali d’italianistica)

    Poetry on Stage focuses on exchanges between the writers of the Italian neo-avant-garde with the actors, directors, and playwrights of the Nuovo Teatro. The book sheds light on a forgotten chapter of twentieth-century Italian literature, arguing that the theatre was the ideal incubator for stylistic and linguistic experiments and a means through which authors could establish direct contact with their audience and verify solutions to the practical and theoretical problems raised by their stances in politics and poetics. A robust analysis of a number of exemplary texts grounds these issues in the plays and poems produced at the time and connects them with the experimentations subsequently carried out by some of the same artists.

    In-depth interviews with four of the most influential figures in the field – critic Valentina Valentini, actor and director Pippo Di Marca, author Giuliano Scabia, and the late poet Nanni Balestrini – conclude the volume, providing invaluable first-hand testimony that brings to life the people and controversies discussed.

    Introduction

    Note on Terminology

    1. Why the Theatre? The Role of the Stage in the Theoretical Debate Surrounding the Poetry and Poetics of the Neo-Avant-Garde
    2. The Italian Stage in the 1960s
    3. A Few Theoretical Notes on Breath and Text
    4. An Introduction to Pagliarani’s Theatre
    5. Collaborations and Convergences: Pagliarani, Giuliani, Celli, and Sanguineti

    Interview with Valentina Valentini
    Interview with Pippo Di Marca
    Interview with Nanni Balestrini
    Interview with Giuliano Scabia

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