Nicola D'Ugo
[ Sexton, Anne , The abundance whimsical, Crocetti, Milano 1997, 186 pp. By Rosaria Lo Russo, Antonello Satta Centanin and Edoardo Zuccato.
Sexton, Anne , love poems, letters, Florence 1996, 208 pp. By Rosaria Lo Russo.]
Sexton, Anne , love poems, letters, Florence 1996, 208 pp. By Rosaria Lo Russo.]
Few poets of the twentieth century can claim to have played a full role in the great emancipation of women. Of course, Adrienne Rich, Margaret Atwood certainly much less of us Blacks, Rosselli and Horses. Anne Sexton, but far surpasses the other Anglo-American poets, as has combined unparalleled eloquence to his difficult life. If, as many argue, the poet is a man or a woman naked, Anne Sexton, in his open-mindedness, it was doubly, through the unveiling of our exterior and his inner world of sex and desire .
The mother, the witch are the emblems, among others, which increase the time value of its language, giving semantic layers undeniable: the myths are collected and reviewed in a new form, as critical to male historical symbols of the universe. The famous "Ballad of masturbation alone," offered in two volumes with different translation, offers a reading of the erotic relationship of antagonism in the forms and values \u200b\u200bof America in the sixties, the economic boom and the liberation of sexual mores, with vagheggianti accents of earlier elegance. The female sexual organ ("My little plum") is made, in Sexton, an externality intimizzata, an emblem of the soul returned to sender by the lover traitor, while refrain, the final chorus of the old form of ballad ("I alone every night husband's bed"), becomes, in the hands of the poet, the instrument of a melancholy passionate and immediate, with a direct, colloquial language, or, as we said, confessional.
In contrast, translation of Lo Russo do not care nor the weight of the words or the rhythm of the sentence. Better operation Centanin, himself a poet, who indulges in a good yield expression of intimacy, but certainly custom unit, compared to the difficulty of translating the voice of a poet prosodic sensual and devoted mainly to the rhyme, impetuous, young and vain. And better yet Zuccato, in "When the man enters the woman, "even with the use of sparse matrix ungarettiana verses.
Sexton From then on, even more than by Moore, HD, or Millay Sitwell, it marked the move with the times, the poetic language of the emancipation of women, denied the assertion of his mastery , over and there's so much nonsense about witchcraft and enchantment that too often are attributed to the good work of a poet: the consideration of such labels are masculine histrionics, which in art means nothing. For Sexton, the woman is in poetry what Woolf was a long time in fiction: a "teacher", a "teacher" if you prefer, a beacon that illuminates a dark space that was just before, there had always been, yet still could not see.
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[posted in: Events No X/28, July 23, 1997, p. 64.]
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