Reviews produced by Luciano Caruso
Poet and editor Luciano Caruso (1944-2002) was born in Naples and was influenced by the youth culture of Naples in the 1960s as well as by his encounters with French Lettrist poets and Situationist writers. He believed greater importance should be accorded to the material aspects of poetry than was previously the case in Italian writing. He founded the ‘Gruppo Continuum’ with poet Stelio Maria Martini in 1967. Among their collaborations are the review Continuum (1968-70) and its successor Continuazione. Emanuela Patti argues in a forthcoming article that the editors wanted to ‘explode’ the review format: these were collective works that rethought the idea of individual authorship. The review was a ‘container of behaviours’, and included evidence of events such as meetings or gatherings, thus marking a shift to understanding poetic creativity as action and linking poetic, artistic endeavours with social and political change. Caruso’s publications and papers are held at the Luciano Caruso archive in Florence.
The images reproduced here are courtesy of the Archivio Luciano Caruso, Firenze ©, and are taken from the following reviews:
Continuum
Continuazione A-Z
E/mana/zione
Silence’s weke 1
Continuum. Contributi per una storia dei gruppi culturali in Italia 1966-1976 (Napoli 1983)
Il Gesto Poetico. Antologia della nuova poesia d’avanguardia, Uomini e idee no. 18, nov- dic 1968
