FOR A POETRY OF MOVEMENT: THE "SHORT STORIES IN GREAT SPEED" BY DINO CAMPANA

In the Taccuinetto faentino Campana has gathered together a number of prose texts under the title "Novelle a gran veloci" ('High-speed novels'). These were incorporated in the Canti Orfici, however, the author eliminated the original futurist title. This revision effort offers the starting point for a study of movement within the work. The interpretation of the Canti Orfici proposed here is based on grammatical, lexical and stylistic elements and traces movement and immobility as the foundations of Campana's poetry. In the continuous shift from one to the other, the poet creates an "instable equilibrium", which is destined to an irreversible collapse.