LUCA LENZINI. INTRODUCTION TO "IL ROVETO"
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THE IRONY OF ROSES *Introduction to the collection Il Roveto (Troubador ublishing Ltd.,, 2005) by Luca Lenzini ABSTRACT: In his introduction to Il Roveto , Italian literary critic Luca Lenzini explores the intersection of experimental poetry and the New Baroque, tracing the collection’s distinctive logic as it weaves together diverse linguistic registers. We invite you to consider how this hybridized lyric idiom challenges conventional poetic boundaries and gestures toward a new form of cultural and poetic dialogue. Critical discourse around the poetry of Erminia Passannanti has largely mobilized conceptual categories rooted in twentieth-century modernism: surrealism, dreamwork, the fragmentation of the self. These terms are not misapplied. On the contrary, they touch upon some of the deeper currents animating her poetics—manifest also in Il Roveto —which unfold in a liminal zone between reality and imagination, between the unconscious and rational cognition, wherein th...