una macchina di effetti (fondazione primoli, 2018; the reappearing pheasant, 2022; scritture complesse, 2025)

Il contributo personale che ho potuto dare a Scritture complesse (è alle pp. 44-50) è consistito nella rielaborazione/riscrittura di un saggio, intitolato Una macchina di effetti. Alcuni pezzi di ricambio per descrizioni e teorie su scritture contemporanee, a cui ho messo mano la prima volta nel 2017-2018, e di cui ho letto una prima bozza in occasione dell’incontro alla Fondazione Primoli, Poesia degli anni 2000. Modelli, forme, contaminazioni (19 mag. 2018, a cura di Roberto Antonelli e Luigi Severi). Tradotto da Nicholas Benson come An Effects Machine. Some Spare Parts for Descriptions and Theories of Contemporary Writing, e da me integrato con appunti sul momento, il testo è diventato un brogliaccio di intervento orale in occasione di The Reappearing Pheasant, convegno e serie di letture a cura di Luigi Ballerini (New York, 2022). Il testo nella sua forma inglese definitiva può essere letto in: Iuri Moscardi, Sandro-Angelo de Thomasis (a cura di), The Acts of the Reappearing Pheasant. The Return of Experimental Italian and American Poets and Critics in New York. Considero infine quella uscita in Scritture complesse la versione italiana definitiva. (Mentre un frammento legato alla stessa espressione “macchina di effetti”, ma slegato dal saggio, si può trovare qui: https://slowforward.net/2024/12/28/tre-paragrafi-sullaffettivita-mg-2017/).

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Tutti gli incontri di New York 2022 possono essere ripercorsi in video qui: https://slowforward.net/2022/11/18/the-re-appearing-pheasant-3-videos/

Mentre sono particolarmente orgoglioso delle parole sul mio testo, con cui Marjorie Perloff ha inaugurato il suo intervento (in incipit di serie): 

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Così come sono felice del dialogo con Charles Bernstein qui:

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…e non meno lieto della lettura che mi è stato possibile fare, ascoltabile qui:

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a piacenza, ancora fino a sabato 21 marzo, presso biffi arte: mostra collettiva “stracci e disarmo”, a cura di margherita labbe

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fotografia di Margherita Labbe

fotografia di Margherita Labbe

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a piacenza, fino al 21 marzo, presso biffi arte: mostra collettiva “stracci e disarmo”, a cura di margherita labbe

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oggi, 15 ottobre / today, october 15th : an online meeting about a “wunderkammer” of contemporary italian poetry

https://www.casaitaliananyu.org/events/italian-poets-in-wonderland/

Wednesday, October 15, 2025
11:00 am – 1:00 pm (New York) // 17:00 – 19:00 (Italy)

as a part of
Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo
in collaboration with
Italian Cultural Institute in New York

Zoom Webinar
Italian Poets in Wonderland
Presenting the Digital Wunderkammer of Contemporary Italian Poetry

On Zoom
(register here)

Featuring:
Stefano Albertini, NYU
Luigi Ballerini, UCLA Emeritus
Fabrizio Bondi, Suor Orsola Benincasa University, Naples
Valerio Lo Bello, NetSeven

With the participation of:
Cecilia Bello, Università di Roma La Sapienza
Stefano Colangelo, University of Bologna
Ugo Perolino, University of Chieti
Vincenzo Frungillo, poet
Gianluca Rizzo, Colby College
Beppe Cavatorta, University of Arizona

In ENGLISH and ITALIAN:
https://www.casaitaliananyu.org/events/italian-poets-in-wonderland/

What if Italian poets were like those animals that, from a distance, seem like flies? Almost invisible at first glance, yet impossible to ignore once you find yourself in the same room with them. From this thought—and from a quotation by Jorge Luis Borges in The Analytical Language of John Wilkins—comes Itpoetry.org, the first digital platform dedicated to contemporary Italian poetry. The site is inspired by the bilingual anthology Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies, edited by Luigi Ballerini and Beppe Cavatorta, whose second volume will be released in November.

On this platform, a variety of voices—academic and beyond—connect online to discuss contemporary poets. The project was launched under the auspices of Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University, on the initiative of Luigi Ballerini and Fabrizio Bondi. Itpoetry.org was developed by the NetSeven studio in Pisa, which translated the structure of Flies into an interactive online experience, giving artistic form and digital animation to the often acrobatic and ironic ideas of Ballerini (UCLA emeritus) and Bondi (Suor Orsola Benincasa University, Naples).

The long flight of the “flies,” carried weightlessly by digital bits, aims to connect not only the two sides of the Atlantic but also the languages of new media with those of poetry—reaching unexpected and diverse audiences. All this stems from the belief that poetry, with its non-instrumental and therefore non-aggressive logic, “takes no prisoners.” Poetry can thus become a vehicle for peace; and it is our ongoing task to translate it—to interpret it, embody it, and carry it forward.

#asAPartOfSettimanaDellaLinguaItalianaNelMondo #BeppeCavatorta #CasaItalianaZerilliMarimò #CeciliaBello #ColbyCollege #contemporaryItalianPoetry #DigitalWunderkammerOfContemporaryItalianPoetry #FabrizioBondi #GianlucaRizzo #ItalianCulturalInstituteInNewYork #ItalianExperimentalism #ItalianPoetry #ItalianPoetsInWonderland #ItpoetryOrg #LaSapienza #letteraturaItaliana #LuigiBallerini #NetSeven #NetSevenStudio #NYU #poems #poesiaItalianaContemporanea #poetry #poets #SapienzaUniversitàDiRoma #SettimanaDellaLinguaItalianaNelMondo #StefanoAlbertini #StefanoColangelo #SuorOrsolaBenincasaUniversity #theDigitalWunderkammerOfContemporaryItalianPoetry #traduzione #traduzioni #translation #translations #UCLA #UgoPerolino #UniversitàDiRomaLaSapienza #UniversityOfArizona #UniversityOfBologna #UniversityOfChieti #ValerioLoBello #VincenzoFrungillo #webinar #wunderkammer #zoom

‘letterature d’america’ n. 204: saggi sulla language poetry (con un’intervista a g.bortolotti e mg)

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È uscito presso l’editore Bulzoni (e si può richiedere a questo indirizzo) il nuovo fascicolo della rivista trimestrale dell’università La Sapienza,  ‘Letterature d’America’, dedicato alla Language Poetry, con contributi di Charles Bernstein, Salvatore Marano, Floriana Puglisi, Luigi Ballerini, e un’intervista sul tema – a cura di Cristina Giorcelli – a Gherardo Bortolotti e MG. Qui in immagine la copertina con l’indice.

https://www.bulzoni.it/it/riviste/letterature-d-america
(sito in aggiornamento)

#Bernstein #bgmole #Bulzoni #CharlesBernstein #CristinaGiorcelli #differx #FlorianaPuglisi #HarryetteMullen #LaSapienza #langpo #languagePoetry #languagePoets #LarryEigner #LetteratureDAmerica #LuigiBallerini #MG #RayDiPalma #rivista #SalvatoreMarano #SapienzaUniversitàDiRoma

15 ottobre / october 15th : an online meeting about a “wunderkammer” of contemporary italian poetry

https://www.casaitaliananyu.org/events/italian-poets-in-wonderland/

Wednesday, October 15, 2025
11:00 am – 1:00 pm (New York) // 17:00 – 19:00 (Italy)

as a part of
Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo
in collaboration with
Italian Cultural Institute in New York

Zoom Webinar
Italian Poets in Wonderland
Presenting the Digital Wunderkammer of Contemporary Italian Poetry

On Zoom
(register here)

Featuring:
Stefano Albertini, NYU
Luigi Ballerini, UCLA Emeritus
Fabrizio Bondi, Suor Orsola Benincasa University, Naples
Valerio Lo Bello, NetSeven

With the participation of:
Cecilia Bello, Università di Roma La Sapienza
Stefano Colangelo, University of Bologna
Ugo Perolino, University of Chieti
Vincenzo Frungillo, poet
Gianluca Rizzo, Colby College
Beppe Cavatorta, University of Arizona

In ENGLISH and ITALIAN:
https://www.casaitaliananyu.org/events/italian-poets-in-wonderland/

What if Italian poets were like those animals that, from a distance, seem like flies? Almost invisible at first glance, yet impossible to ignore once you find yourself in the same room with them. From this thought—and from a quotation by Jorge Luis Borges in The Analytical Language of John Wilkins—comes Itpoetry.org, the first digital platform dedicated to contemporary Italian poetry. The site is inspired by the bilingual anthology Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies, edited by Luigi Ballerini and Beppe Cavatorta, whose second volume will be released in November.

On this platform, a variety of voices—academic and beyond—connect online to discuss contemporary poets. The project was launched under the auspices of Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University, on the initiative of Luigi Ballerini and Fabrizio Bondi. Itpoetry.org was developed by the NetSeven studio in Pisa, which translated the structure of Flies into an interactive online experience, giving artistic form and digital animation to the often acrobatic and ironic ideas of Ballerini (UCLA emeritus) and Bondi (Suor Orsola Benincasa University, Naples).

The long flight of the “flies,” carried weightlessly by digital bits, aims to connect not only the two sides of the Atlantic but also the languages of new media with those of poetry—reaching unexpected and diverse audiences. All this stems from the belief that poetry, with its non-instrumental and therefore non-aggressive logic, “takes no prisoners.” Poetry can thus become a vehicle for peace; and it is our ongoing task to translate it—to interpret it, embody it, and carry it forward.

#asAPartOfSettimanaDellaLinguaItalianaNelMondo #BeppeCavatorta #CasaItalianaZerilliMarimò #CeciliaBello #ColbyCollege #contemporaryItalianPoetry #DigitalWunderkammerOfContemporaryItalianPoetry #FabrizioBondi #GianlucaRizzo #ItalianCulturalInstituteInNewYork #ItalianExperimentalism #ItalianPoetry #ItalianPoetsInWonderland #ItpoetryOrg #LaSapienza #letteraturaItaliana #LuigiBallerini #NetSeven #NetSevenStudio #NYU #poems #poesiaItalianaContemporanea #poetry #poets #SapienzaUniversitàDiRoma #SettimanaDellaLinguaItalianaNelMondo #StefanoAlbertini #StefanoColangelo #SuorOrsolaBenincasaUniversity #theDigitalWunderkammerOfContemporaryItalianPoetry #traduzione #traduzioni #translation #translations #UCLA #UgoPerolino #UniversitàDiRomaLaSapienza #UniversityOfArizona #UniversityOfBologna #UniversityOfChieti #ValerioLoBello #VincenzoFrungillo #webinar #wunderkammer #zoom

oggi – 25 settembre – a milano, fondazione mudima: “le anguille di leonardo”, di luigi ballerini (marsilio, 2025)

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#anguille #art #arte #Cenacolo #FondazioneMudima #GiovanniBonoldi #ilCenacolo #LeAnguilleDiLeonardo #Leonardo #LeonardoDaVinci #LuigiBallerini #Marsilio #MarsilioBiblioteca #MarsilioEditore #Mudima #saggi

[r] _ un articolo del 2022 su “the reappearing pheasant”, il convegno/reading svoltosi a novembre a new york

articolo di Luciana Capretti:

https://lavocedinewyork.com/arts/2022/11/15/the-reappearing-pheasant-ballerini-stefano-albertini/

in video: Francesco Muzzioli; al tavolo, da sinistra a destra: Fabrizio Bondi, Marco Giovenale, Daniele Poletti; foto di Terry W. Sanders

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#CasaItalianaZerilliMarimò #CasaZerilliMarimò #CharlesBernstein #convegno #incontro #IstitutoItalianoDiCultura #LaVoceDiNewYork #LucianaCapretti #LuigiBallerini #NewYork #NewYorkUniversity #NYU #poesiaAmericanaContemporanea #poesiaItalianaContemporanea #StefanoAlbertini #TheReappearingPheasant #traduzione #traduzioni

[r] _ the complete videos of “the re-appearing pheasant”: an encounter of american and italian poets and critics, new york, 11-12-13 nov 2022

The Re-Appearing Pheasant
An Encounter of American and Italian Poets and Critics
New York, November 11-12-13, 2022

Convened by
Luigi Ballerini

Presented by
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University
Stefano Albertini, Director

In Cooperation with
The Italian Cultural Institute of New York
Fabio Finotti, Director

#AmericanAndItalianPoetsAndCritics #AmericanPoets #CasaItalianaZerilliMarimò #criticism #critics #event #FabioFinotti #ItalianPoets #LuigiBallerini #NewYorkUniversity #poems #poetry #poets #proseInProse #prosePieces #StefanoAlbertini #TheItalianCulturalInstituteOfNewYork #TheReAppearingPheasant