FOLGORE, Luciano (Pseud. di Omero Vecchi, Roma, 1888 - Roma, 1966)Poeti allo Specchio. Parodie

In his first collection of Futurist poetry, Il canto dei Motori (The Song of the Engines, 1912), Folgore did not accompany the modernisation of his themes with an intimate renewal of language, in which D'Annunzio's influence is clearly evident. But with Ponti sull'oceano (Bridges over the Ocean, 1914), the poet broke new ground: the influence of the theory of words in freedom was decisive. Folgore contributes to the codification of paroliberismo with his own manifesto (Lirismo sintetico e sensazione fisica, published in the magazine Lacerba in January 1914), going beyond Marinetti's syntactic asceticism and proposing the abolition of the verb, albeit in the infinitive. Subsequently, in Folgore, as in Marinetti, there was a “return of the repressed” with a partial recovery of syntax and a parallel broadening of themes: this can be seen in the collection Città veloce (Fast City, 1919), which contains some of Folgore's most valuable poems (from Pontus Hulten, Futurismo & Futurismi. Bompiani, 1986).