Vittorio Orlando

Vittorio Orlando, born in Mola di Bari in 1942, has chosen to publish little. His appear in three anthologies: Bitter flowers (Barbieri, Manduria) in 1993, Italian anthology in 1996 and the Main Road (Plectica, Salerno) in 2003. He also edited the preface to an essay on Carlo Michestaedter.
Orlando's poetry sinks into the Greek myth, which becomes the semantic code with which to interpret the present, an eternal reading key in its ancestry, capable of revealing all the crudeness of modernity. And in this contact-contrast the mythology itself becomes polyvalent, it loses its connotation of purity in laying bare the foundations of contemporary society. It is a deliberately obscure poem, which underlines the disdained distance between the author and the world he represents, bringing out the contradictions.
Ludmilla