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Title

Drawn states of mind / by Giuseppe Steiner ; translated from the Italian and with an introduction by Guy Bennett.

Author

Steiner, Giuseppe.

Publication

Los Angeles : Sun & Moon Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

Bennett, Guy.

Description

42 pages : illustrations; 19 cm.

Summary

• Giuseppe Steiner joined the ranks of the Italian Futurist movement during World War I, and contributed freeword poetry to a variety of Futurist journals. His first book, La Chitarra del fante ("The Infantryman's Guitar"), was published in 1920. But in the years following Steiner abandoned the Marinettian project of "words-in-freedom" because he felt that verbal poetry was inherently limited, due to the inadequate expressive potential of words.
• Pushing Marinetti's work, Steiner first experimented with "syllables-in-freedom"; and when these also seemed unmanageable he turned away from verbal expression altogether. In Drawn States of Mind Steiner presented twenty of his visual poems. Including his original essay and an introduction by translator Guy Bennett, this publication documents one of the most radical positions taken in Italian Futurist literature, revealing what a poetry beyond language might look like.

Series Statement

Sun & Moon classics ; 63

Uniform Title

• Stati d'animo disegnati. English
• Sun & Moon classics ; 63.

Alternative Title

Stati d'animo disegnati.

Note

• Translation of: Stati d'animo disegnati.
• First published in Milan by Edizione Futuriste de "Poesia", 1923.

Contents

Drawn States of Mind -- Wonder -- Napoleon -- Altruism and Egoism -- Coffee After Midnight -- Acute Physical Pain -- Madness -- Genius -- Human Intelligence -- Divine Intelligence -- Gaity -- Neurasthenia -- Confusion -- Sunday -- Monday -- Tuesday -- Wednesday -- Thursday -- Friday -- Saturday -- Serene and Dusty Winter's Sunday at 5 in the Afternoon.

ISBN

1557131716

OCLC

ocm30527272

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries