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in school became successful poets. All they had to do was operate
Marinetti’s pre-assembled machine and send the final product
to periodicals such as Italia Futurista or Lacerba. Thus, instead of
limiting ourselves to the inventors (Marinetti, Folgore, Soffici) we
decided to also include a few of the “minori” practitioners.
See, for instance, this passage by Bruno Sanzin, who at age 15
joined the ranks of the futurists by sending an enthusiastic letter
to F.T. himself (who later included him in the movement’s second
anthology “Nuovi Poeti Futuristi,” 1925):
pim
pam pic
pumpac
random little bangs
mad color joy red-white-yellow-green-purple flowers
absorbed by the black night spring happiness
dance of multicolored girls on the stage of the sky
an airplane silently slips by searching for new paths
Finally, we were able to include a “parolibero” text by Fortunato
Depero. We found the original typescript in the marvellous
collection of Futurist papers held at the Getty Research Institute
in Los Angeles. It is, to the best of our knowledge, published here
for the first time. We would like to take this opportunity to thank
the gracious staff of the Getty, who makes the trip up that hill a
rare treat.
Gianluca Rizzo and Dominic Siracusa
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