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Altra arte poetica Franco Fortini
Esiste, nella poesia, una possibilità che, se una volta ha ferito chi la scrive o la legge, non darà più requie, come un motivo semi modulato semi tradito può tormentare una memoria. E io che scrivo so ch’è un senso diverso che può darsi all’identico, so che qui ferma dentro il verso resta la parola che senti o leggi e insieme vola via dove tu non sei più, dove neppure pensi di poter giungere, e cominciano altre montagne, invece, pianura ansiose, fiumi come hai visti viaggiando dagli aerei tremanti, città impetuose qui, sotto le immobili parole scritte tue.
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Another poetic art Franco Fortini
There exists, in poetry, the possibility that, if ever it troubled any one who wrote or read it, no longer could peace be had, like a melody partly modulated partly revealed can torment a memory. And I who write know that a different sense can be given to one identical, I know that here within the verse lingers the word you hear or read and at the same time it flies off to where you no longer are, a place you can’t imagine reaching, and where, instead, other mountains rise, anxious leas, rivers you’ve seen when travelling in shaky airplanes, impetuous cities here, under the immobile words written yours.
Translation ©Matilda Colarossi |
Franco Fortini (Franco Lattes) was born in Florence in 1917. He was a poet, translator, editor, journalist and professor. The poem Altra arte poetica is part of the collection Poesia e errori, first published by Feltrinelli in 1959.
About the poems G. Titta Rosa stated: “The collection by Franco Fortini, Poesia e errori, is a demonstration that not only has the distinction that once existed between poetry and non-poetry been confused, blurring confines and territories, but also the distinction between the abstract word and the concrete one, or more precisely the one between reason and fantasy. And in this osmosis we are far from the symbolistic realms of “pure poetry” and hermeticism. In Fortini’s poetry a limpid and oftentimes ruthless light of reason invests ideas and images, discourses and figures.” Almanacco Bompiani, 1960.
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