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Chapter 94: LE LETTERE
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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 LETTERE

il giardino segreto

Carezze consumate nel pensiero,

parole dette senza voce viva,

intimità ravvolte di mistero!

Lettere, orto occulto che coltiva

per sè ogni donna: frutti per la sete,

fiori per la narice sensitiva.

E steli ch'ella sa intrecciare a rete

ed erbe amare come le cicute

ed ortiche che pungono segrete.

Per l'amore che in sè portano mute,

per i sogni ch'è dolce in lor trasmettere,

per le menzogne di cui son tessute,

un sottil sortilegio arma le lettere.