marcin
(Marcin)
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stylistic enrichment, an intersecting of
metaphoric-linguistic fragments [...] What at
first stands out in Riviello is the appeal to
Sinisgalli’s modernism in paratactic
structures with very complex patterns that
range from the real to the surreal, in a sort of
compact sleight-of-hand of the verb
(Manescalchi, from Dopo Scotellaro,
supplement to Collettivo r, FI, 1982.
Riviello, ”meek dadaist,” mixes parody
and self-irony, providing texts in which
amusement becomes more and more bitter,
and behind the irreverent forms or lapsus
that create a risible level for the reader, there
looms the obsessive outline of a deep
anguish and a biting sarcasm that envelops
and mixes everything.
Upon sending me this group of dialect
poems (rare and going back a few decades),
Riviello enclosed this explanatory preface