Paolo Ruffilli / Emanuel Di Pasquale
Librería Samer Atenea
Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Donde los libros
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
The fine citation by Roland Barthes, which Ruffilli has posted as epigraph to this book,can induce (and, as far as I am concerned, has fleetingly induced me) to a curious 'optic'error. For a few instants, I supposed that the title of Ruffilli’s book derived, in an overturn,by a book, Barthes’s, from which the citation is taken: Dark Room, that is, instead of whiteroom. Naturally, reason quickly corrected the error: It was nothing like that: Barthes’s titleis overturning something, precisely a current expression, while that of Ruffilli rectifies andintegrates it, that expression, in the semantic norm (even if, as it is well-understood, notwithout its halo of ambiguity, of ulterior feelings). . . .A discreet connoisseur of Italian poetry of this century will quickly see in Ruffilli’sverses the continuity of a noble tradition, made of refined poverty, of contracted music,up to the extreme limit of inaudibility, which reaches its high point in the poetry of GiorgioCaproni; and he will think, then, of certain tangents, even thematic, between the presentstory in Camera oscura and the unforgettable story of Annina in Seme del piangere.But just as easy, and certainly owed, will be to watch how Ruffilli works on his verbal andsentimental material with a sort of tenacity and 'scientific' impassibility, which is notCaproni’s regarding how the very stillness of the photographic image constitutes a 'moving'and formal correlative. - GIOVANNI RABONI, 'Afterword'
