Poesie

This anthology, introduced and edited by Andrea Gialloreto, traverses Giorgio Vigolo’s entire poetic oeuvre, from his early voices to the surprising and neglected collections of his old age (such as I fantasmi di pietra and La fame degli occhi, published in 1977 and 1982 respectively).Vigolo combines the desperate pronouncement of an unquenchable ache of living with listening to the voices of the transcendent. It is these messengers and nocturnal visitors (familiar shadows, angels and devils that take up residence in Vigolo’s mind) that dictate the feverish rhythms of a poetry characterised by interference of memory, dreamlike deceptions, infernal visions and celestial glimpses. Fantastic transfigurations of streets, palaces and churches conjure up the stone ghosts of the unreal topography of an eternal Rome, re-read in the light of Baroque, Romanticism and metaphysical painting.