Lo sguardo del corpo

Intervista a Viola Lo Moro

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  • Viola Lo Moro
  • Adele Bardazzi Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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https://doi.org/10.31273/polisemie.v3.1239

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Contemporary poetry

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  • Viola Lo Moro

    Viola Lo Moro è una poeta e attivista lesbo-femminista. Nata a Roma nel 1985. È socia della libreria – bar delle donne di Roma, Tuba, della quale cura la programmazione. Ha ideato, insieme ad altre donne, il festival delle scrittrici “inQuiete”, del quale ha curato tre edizioni. Nell’Ottobre 2020 è uscito il suo primo libro di poesie, “Cuore Allegro”, Giulio Perrone editore. Scrive articoli e racconti per riviste letterarie e femministe, e ne ha fondata una nel 2020, che si chiama “JO – diari dal futuro”. Insieme a Giulia Caminito e Nadia Terranova è curatrice della collana “mosche d’oro” per la casa editrice Giulio Perrone. Cura una sezione di dialoghi letterari all’interno delle stagioni teatrali di Spazio Kor ad Asti. A Ottobre 2022 è uscito il suo secondo libro di poesie “Luoghi Amati” (Giulio Perrone editore).

    Viola Lo Moro is a lesbo-feminist poet and activist. She was born in Rome in 1985. She is a member of the bookshop – Bar delle donne in Rome, Tuba, where she is responsible for the cultural program. Together with other women, she has created the festival of writers "inQuiete", of which she has curated three editions. In October 2020 her first book of poems, "Cuore Allegro", published by Giulio Perrone, was released. She writes articles and short stories for literary and feminist magazines, and founded one in 2020, “JO – diari dal futuro”. Together with Giulia Caminito and Nadia Terranova, she is the curator of the "Golden Fly" series for the publisher Giulio Perrone. She curates a section of literary dialogues within the theatrical season of the Spazio Kor theater in Asti. In October 2022 her second book of poems "Amati Places" (Giulio Perrone) was released.

  • Adele Bardazzi, Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

    Adele Bardazzi is Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and Honorary Research Fellow at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford. At Oxford, she completed her DPhil at Christ Church, followed by a Laming Fellowship and an Extraordinary Junior Research Fellowship at The Queen’s College. Her research focuses on issues of form and interpretation: poetry and poetics, lyric theory, gender and women’s studies, and verbal-visual glitches. At present, while at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the École Normale Supérieure as Visiting Research Fellow, she is working on A Textile Poetics of Entanglements, her second monograph expanding questions of poetic theory raised in her first book, Eugenio Montale: A Poetics of Mourning (Peter Lang, 2022). Among her recent and forthcoming publications are: the edited volumes Gender and Authority Across Disciplines, Space and Time with Alberica Bazzoni (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and A Gaping Wound: Mourning in Italian Poetry with Francesco Giusti and Emanuela Tandello (Legenda, 2022), the special issues Weaving Media in Italian Poetry (Italica, forthcoming 2023) and Elegy Today: Rejections, Re-mappings, Rewritings with Jonathan Culler and Roberto Binetti (Journal of World Literature), which will be followed by an expanded book version: The Contemporary Elegy in World Literature (Brill, forthcoming 2023).  She is the co-founder of «Non solo muse» (www.nonsolomuse.com) and «Italian Poetry Today» (www.italianpoetrytoday.com).

polisemie III 2022

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Published

2022-11-02

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Vol. 3 (2022)

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Interviews

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