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In this keen examination of Alfredo de Palchi's lyrical oeuvre, Giorgio Linguaglossa refers to de Palchi as the missing link in Italian poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. Through brilliant analysis, Linguaglossa gives us a complete picture of de Palchi's asymptomatic creative paradigm.
List of contents
Foreword by Anthony Julian Tamburri
Chapter 1
Alfredo de Palchi's Poetry Between Modern and Postmodern Times
Chapter 2
The Missing Link in Italian Poetry of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 3
The Revolution of Form in the 1950s and 1960s: The Scorpion's Dark Dance
Chapter 4
Poetry as an Expression of Libidinal Effraction: A Psychoanalytical Investigation of The Scorpion's Dark Dance
Chapter 5
The 1960s: Sessions with My Analyst
Chapter 6
The Ghost and the "Thing" in the Symbolic Order of Alfredo de Palchi's Poetry
Chapter 7
Reading a Poem by Alfredo de Palchi: (non-communication) in Sessions with My Analyst
Chapter 8
The Issue is the Inexpressibility of the Assertorial Order: Alfredo de Palchi's Poetic Discourse
Chapter 9
The Unstable Structure of Anonymous Constellation: de Palchi's Poetry from the 1970s to the 1990s
Chapter 10
Regarding Foemina Tellus: de Palchi's Poetry from the 1990s into the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 11
Alfredo de Palchi's Poetry in the New Millennium: Apropos of Nihil, The Aesthetics of Equilibrium, and Eventi terminali
Roberto Bertoldo Interviews Alfredo de Palchi
Afterword by John Taylor
About the author
Giorgio Linguaglossa is a critic, author, and poet.
Steven Grieco-Rathgeb is a poet and translator.
