Maria Isabella Vincentini (born in 1954) is an Italian

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

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and

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. She graduated in Humanities at

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University in Rome, where she also gained a post-graduate degree in modern philology. The focus of her dissertation was

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’s philological writings and the classical world of

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. Topics which are revisited both in her essays and in her poetry, which is influenced by contemporary

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, especially by that of Odisseas Elitis and

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, both of which she has dealt with extensively in her criticism. Her essays focus on the debate on the theory of literature between hermeneutics, deconstruction and postmodernism (

Blanchot Maurice Blanchot (; ; 22 September 1907 – 20 February 2003) was a French writer, philosopher and literary theorist. His work, exploring a philosophy of death alongside poetic theories of meaning and sense, bore significant influence on post- ...

Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze ( , ; 18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volu ...

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, Lyotard,

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, de Man and

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) and aim to provide a thematic reading of twentieth-century poetry (

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, Gabriele D’Annunzio,

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and

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). She has published anthologies of Italian poets who came to light after the so-called Neoavanguardia, a movement which dominated the nineteen-sixties, as well as essays, monographs and interviews with them. She has also published two collections of poems: ''Le ore e i giorni'' (''The Hours and the Days'') and ''Diario di bordo'' (''Logbook''). She has worked on cultural programmes for

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(the Italian state broadcasting company) and in 1999 she founded with the

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Mario Perniola Mario Perniola (20 May 1941 – 9 January 2018) was an Italian philosopher, professor of aesthetics and author. Many of his works have been published in English. Biography Mario Perniola was born in Asti, Piedmont. He studied philosophy under Luig ...

and a group of Italian and international intellectuals the magazine

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of whose editorial committee she is still a member.

Selected works

* ''La pratica del desiderio. I giovani poeti degli anni ’80'' (''The practice of desire. The young poets of the 80s''), Salvatore Sciascia Editore,

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, 1986. * ''Colloqui sulla poesia. Le ultime tendenze'' (''Talks on poetry. The latest trends''), Edizioni RAI,

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, 1991. * ''Varianti da un naufragio. Il viaggio marino dai simbolisti ai post-ermetici'' (''Variations from a shipwreck. The sea journey from the Symbolists to the post-hermetics''), Mursia,

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, 1994. * ''Diario di bordo'' (''Logbook''), I Quaderni del Battello Ebbro, Porretta Terme, 1998. * ''Atene. Tra i muscoli dei Ciclopi'' (''Athens. Between the Muscles of the Cyclops''), Unicopli Edizioni, Milan, 2002. * ''Le ore e i giorni'' (''The Hours and the Days''), La Vita Felice, Milan, 2008. * ''Lettere a un guaritore non ferito'' (''Letters to a not wounded healer''), La Vita Felice,

, 2009.

References

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