Contemporary Slovene Poetry in Italy

Abstract

The article highlights the development of the contemporary poetry in Italy (1945-2016) arising at the intersection of the Slovene and Italian literature and in a direct contact with the Italian local literature. Since the end of World War II, a significant corpus of poetry that emanates the residential and spiritual experiences of the area has been created. Rather than dealing with individual authorial poetics, the overview focuses on the collective artistic language of individual periods, i.e., on content formulations repeated in numerous texts and by various authors that eventually become images with a clearly defined semantics. Similar coordinates are used to decipher the choice of the language of art, which is, according to Lotman (2010: 28), alongside the content "one of the pillars of information" and thus as the defining material "reproduces a model of the world".