Three Stations by Antonella Anedda

Author:Antonella Anedda
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry Italian
ISBN: 9781550715088
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Published: 2009-07-28T00:00:00+00:00

sopporta la mancanza, la voce

alza soltanto in notti di solitudine.

What she considers are subtle variations between “assenza” or absence, “addio” or farewell, and “mancanza” or the missing, a lack. The utopian hope is for an absence that is not definitive, for a farewell someone can somehow revoke or take back. In that way, a voice might raise from night’s solitude – one to which the wind itself might respond. As Anedda suggests, “Mancanza é voce, braccio che stringe il vuoto, carezza di lontanza.”5 Thoughts and words able to unite divided generations and cultures are so highly valued in part for their capacity to function as the most effective possible correctives to what can be the alienating elements of space and time.

Moreover, Helen Vendler reminds us of how poetic identities emerge with the unfolding of thought in original constructs of each author and with individual successions of imagery of each. Reading the four major poetic projects as outlined in Vendler’s provocative Poets Thinking would locate Anedda as an adapted hybrid of sorts. That is, rather than re-arranging seriality in a Dickinsonian way, Anedda often decontextualizes the event, image, or moment; rather than to creating palimpsest-like texts that Yeats might with his memorable overlay to any succession of imagery, Anedda tends to toss the pebble of each image onto the lake of page so that an expanse of white space highlights its inimitability rather than to engulf it with time’s widening rings. The resulting grip of that starkness pelts the unsuspecting heart with interrogatives. To whom and what are we fully accountable? When and how might we have failed them? How closely tied are we to our own natures? What can we do to even what’s uneven in the natural world? And precisely where do those answers take their place in the long march that is history? Essential bedrocks of self-knowledge and social awareness, it’s a type of thinking, as Vendler says of Yeats and his “poetic labyrinths,” that is “worthy of our attention, respect, and even awe.”6

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