ABSTRACT

Edoardo Sanguineti's poetry was born in the wake of the poetics of the object, a notion formulated and developed by Luciano Anceschi, who discovered Sanguineti. In this chapter, the author talks about a 'process of normalization', a quantitative extension of all of the stylistic methods created by the historical avant-gardes. He provides the adoption of 'low elements' in combination with the aforementioned process of normalization. The great early twentieth-century artists were very aware of the dilemma, but in the end addressed it from afar, never managing to fully immerse themselves, to frequent the nether regions of the Eros, the libido, and the unconscious. The values of the body prevailed over those of the mind, and in this regard too one can identify the harmony between manifestations in literature and in the art world. As a consequence, Sanguineti's prose splintered into fragments, albeit stylistically incisive ones.