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Chapter 36: le sete
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The collection gathers lyrical sequences and sonnets in a confessional voice that probes modern female identity, desire, and social performance. One extended autobiographical sequence composed of many thirteen-line terzine reads like a novel without plot, tracing appetite, flirtation, indifference, and the exhilaration of urban fashion and nightlife; other poems, including more compact sonnets, record earlier romantic suffering and youthful passions. The speaker juxtaposes classical female archetypes with a contemporary Parisian model to explore ambivalence toward love, liberty, and reputation, using vivid sensory detail, psychological introspection, and recurring images of gaze, costume, jealousy, and theatricalized seduction.

le sete

Io so la rigidezza delle sete

garrule al passo. O vesti d'ave, bene

riposte in grandi scatole segrete!

So delle trine la mollezza lene,

l'onda dei veli donde emerge il viso

come da spume volto di sirene.

So l'iride in mille iridi diviso

perchè ogni donna la sua veste faccia

del colore più adatto al suo sorriso.

So l'ombra delle piume in cui la faccia

s'imbianca d'un languor di passïone,

in cui la bocca bella, benchè taccia,

parla parole di seduzïone.