ABSTRACT
'Ideology' and 'language' are fundamental categories in Edoardo Sanguineti's thought. An article from 1963 on Giovanni Pascoli's Poemetti offers one of the most enlightening exemplifications of their interaction. A considerable part of the interest of Sanguineti's texts is due to the conjunction of the two aspects just described: on the one hand poetry as doing, and doing as a ludic moment; on the other hand, poetry as knowledge, product of intellectual elaboration and of techno-artisanal work, rather than of inspiration. Sanguineti's poetry presents itself as 'other' in its inventive adoption of apparently 'inappropriate' forms, languages and poetable subjects and its free dialogue with canonical and more orthodox texts. One of the main features of Sanguineti's poetry can be found precisely in the accumulation of fragments of the real. The readers traverse Sanguineti's collection of poems as they would wander through the rooms of a museum, and instead of looking at canvases, hear them in narration.
