Journal of Italian Translation

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Journal of Italian Translation
that’s alive, a living thing? Is this an evocation of a particular line of poetry?
No.
The verb tenses must be changed:
“He lives in Milan, where he has resided since 1955.”
“He has been supportive and encouraging of this translation.”
“He has been generous of his time.”
“All of his six poetry collections and his three theatrical monologues
are written in the dialect of the town of his birth, Santarcangelo di
Romagna.”
“His work has been awarded the Viareggio Prize,the first time this
prestigious prize was awarded to a work written in a dialect. His most
recent collection was awarded the Campana Prize.”
“His poems are intense internal monologues in which generally only
one of the interlocutors gets to speak.”
“His themes are reflected in some of these titles: Solitude, Outsider,
Small Talk. Each poem moves towards and resists Death.”
Few of his poems are free from parenthetical asides, digression, non
sequitur. His narrators also wander into anacoluthon, that is to say ending
a sentence with a different structure from that with which it began. His
poems employ the rhetorical techniques that form the backbone of argument:
indignatio
memopsis
oiktros,
erotesis
orcos
threnos
ara
decsis
diasymus
aposiopesis
apostrophe
In the end his spine
caused great pain,
a tall, thin man.
The rhetorical techniques of argument are defined in this way:
indignatio, impassioned speech or loud, angry speaking
memopsis, complaining against injuries and pleading for help