L’altalena dei sensi; Divinità spiraliche
This exceptional pairing brings together two rare Futurist poetry collections by Alceo Folicaldi, both published in Rome in 1934. L’altalena dei sensi establishes Folicaldi as a distinctive practitioner of free-word poetry within second-generation Futurism. The volume opens with an approving letter by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who praises the poet’s sensory and imaginative freedom. The accompanying Divinità spiraliche is the second part of a cycle that Folicaldi himself described as a tetralogy. In both books, conventional lyric form is disrupted through typographic dispersion, associative montage, and an intensely sensory vocabulary. For the bibliophile, the pair offers a rare document of late Futurist book culture, retaining the original wrappers and preserved in a later chemise and slipcase.
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L’altalena dei sensi; Divinità spiraliche
1934 | Rome | Edizioni Futuriste di Poesia
Together, these two original editions form a rare and coherent document of second-generation Italian Futurism. Their experimental texts, original wrappers, and direct connection with Marinetti give the ensemble exceptional significance.
This exceptional pairing brings together two rare Futurist poetry collections by Alceo Folicaldi, both published in Rome in 1934. L’altalena dei sensi establishes Folicaldi as a distinctive practitioner of free-word poetry within second-generation Futurism. The volume opens with an approving letter by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who praises the poet’s sensory and imaginative freedom. The accompanying Divinità spiraliche is the second part of a cycle that Folicaldi himself described as a tetralogy. In both books, conventional lyric form is disrupted through typographic dispersion, associative montage, and an intensely sensory vocabulary. For the bibliophile, the pair offers a rare document of late Futurist book culture, retaining the original wrappers and preserved in a later chemise and slipcase.
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L’altalena dei sensi is a collection of experimental poems opening with an untitled introductory poemetto. It is followed by the sections L’altalena elettrica, La cantilena satanica, Numeri di sole, and Deformazioni. The volume closes with a sequence of 53 free-word fragments. Rather than presenting a continuous narrative, it unfolds through sensations, moods, numbers, colours, music, desire, and urban impulses. Divinità spiraliche continues this non-linear poetics as the second part of Folicaldi’s Futurist tetralogy, following Nudità futuriste of 1933. Its poems combine mystical, bodily, and cosmic imagery with abrupt verbal conjunctions and spatially arranged text. Together, the books reveal Folicaldi’s attempt to connect private emotion with the experimental vocabulary of second-generation Futurism.
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These two copies of Le Parti pris des choses form a remarkable paired witness to Francis Ponge’s visit to Zurich in March 1949. The book itself is one of the decisive prose works of French modernity: not lyrical confession, but a precise encounter with the mute dignity of things. Ponge gives ordinary objects — soap, bread, an oyster, a pebble, a cigarette — a language at once exact, ironic and sensuous. The double inscription to Frank Thiessing and to Madame Frank Thiessing gives the pair a strongly personal resonance. Frank C. Thiessing belonged to the Swiss world of graphic design, publishing and visual modernism, notably in relation to Hans Erni. These copies therefore connect Ponge’s literary materialism with the artistic and typographic networks of post-war Zurich.
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