«Che cosa si può dire»

Le riviste di poesia italiana fra anni Settanta e Ottanta

Abstract

The academic interest towards the magazines of the Seventies and Eighties, in the last five years, has been marked by an open gaze, aimed precisely at studying and not just at labeling in the wake of already determined categories. This article aims to investigate not the anthological canon, but the “essayistic” one of the magazines: that is, which authors of the now concluded past are investigated, which “maestri” of the present, which foreign authors, which theoretical points of reference are investigated. Reconstructing the focal points of the poetic debate can be useful in shedding light on one of the decades of greatest change in Italian poetry. It will be shown that many of the poetry magazines of the Seventies and Eighties, in fact, were founded as an attempt to fill the presumed literary “void” of the previous decade; consequently they are a relevant experimentation workshop, transversal to the most known literary streams. The journals studied are the following: «Tabula», «Tam Tam», «Altri termini», «Scarto minimo».