"Surprising Verses Conjured by a Witch"
Premio Strega Poetry Award Announces Finalists for 2023
The Premio Strega Poetry Award, known for stirring controversy in the poetic landscape, has announced its finalists for the year. The ceremony took place at Maxxi de L'Aquila.
The finalists for the award are Alfonso Guida, Giancarlo Pontiggia, Jonida Prifti (marking her virgin path in the award), Marilena Renda, and Tiziano Rossi. Notably absent from the list is Maurizio Cucchi, whose work has been making waves in the literary world.
Cucchi aims to preserve a network of mental movements in his work, which he refers to as a "box". His work contains images that seem to have sprung from the magical realism of Lombard roots, rejected by the everyday. In Cucchi's work, everything is concrete yet elusive, rooted yet dissolving.
The journey in Cucchi's work shifts to an oniric dimension, transforming private and rural spaces into theaters of evocations. His work explores the archaeological investigation of identity through the bodily memory of places and words. Cucchi's work is characterized by a prosodic yet densely rhythmic verse, often syncopated and never rhetorical. His verse production, noted in "La scatola onirica" (Mondadori), is a testament to this style.
The lyrical I in Cucchi's work crosses dreams, lexical shreds, ruins of language and history like a diviner. A remote figure of Sabatino, obsessed with etymology to the point of aphasia, is present in Cucchi's work, within an aporia that becomes paradoxically the point of rebirth. If the word collapses, the poetic gesture rises again.
The finalists, however, will compete for the award. Their works include "Diario di un autodidatta" (Guanda), "La materia del contendere" (Garzanti), "Sorelle di confine" (Marco Saya), "Cinema Persefone" (Arcipelago Itaca), and "Il brusio" (Einaudi) respectively. The winner of the award will be chosen from these five authors.
The poetic landscape is currently divided and stagnant. The omission of works like Marco Corsi's "Nel dopo" (Guanda) from the finalists further fuels this divide. The name of the author whose work "Nel dopo" was omitted at the 2023 Premio Strega Poetry Award is not publicly available.
The scientific committee of the third edition of the award includes Andrea Cortellessa, Patricia Peterle, Stefano Petrocchi, and Laura Pugno. The Premio Strega Poetry Award, with its controversial history, continues to stir debates and challenge the status quo in the poetic landscape.
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