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I have sought, through careful and inevitable subtraction, to convey the poetry of Stelio Carnevali, identifying the mature texts in which his lyrical identity presents itself with clarity, depth, and purity.
His poetry arises from a style apparently turned toward the past. Yet, it manages to shape itself with a personal character, within which he kindles and composes a narrative succession, through a rhythmic lyricism capable of distilling its essential foundations.
The verse bursts forth with sudden cuts that break the predictable, streaking the sung experience with astonished bitterness—always in moving connection with the vegetal and animal world. Irony and self-irony intertwine with delicate, feathery lightness, drawing us into the quick spiral of the verses. The kaleidoscopic everyday cracks open. We enter a sliver of illuminated perspective, whether of the present or within the poet’s memory. Always with compassion and loving awareness.
Carnevali sings his Mantuan land, his mother-origin, never yielding to nostalgic, fetal, lamenting twists. On the contrary, he succeeds in overturning the weight of dramatic intensity, attaining a fresh, oxygenated lightness.
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I wanted to host Carnevali’s voice, narrating the fundamental relational carpets of his life in the QR, so as to bring his entire work to completion—including his existential one.
—from the introduction by Anna Maria Farabbi,
director of the Arca series and editor of the volume
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