Camillo Capolongo

This paper aims at drawing the basic features of the "textual" poetics of Camillo Capolongo (1940-2013), until now better known as visual and sound poet, as shown by his last decades participation in national and international poetry events. It is here explained how his crucial themes (namely the power and "territoriality" of "logos"; the dialectic between reason and obsession; the "bodily aesthetics" and the "eros") shift from the artistic avant-garde patterns to those more traditional of the "linear poetry", especially through the adoption of stylistic and expressive devices like parody and irony. At a deeper level, the importance in Capolongo's verses of both rhythmic and phonic elements is stressed, as they appear as significant vehicles of his sententious message.