Roberto Carifi

Roberto Carifi (born 1948 in Pistoia), is an Italian poet, philosopher, and translator, supported since the beginning from Piero Bigongiari, one of the major exponents of Florentine Hermeticism. He is considered important poet and intellectual of his generation.

Biography Since his university years, Carifi was attracted by French and German philosophy; in his mature age he also crossed paths with Buddhist, getting influenced, for instance, in his collections such as Tibet and The Secret. Alongside philosophical studies, there are those of psychoanalysis, first carried out at L'École Freudienne in Paris, as an auditor at the lectures held by Jacques Lacan, and continued in Milan. Carifi poetic has been deeply influenced by the lyrical voices of Rainer Maria Rilke and Georg Trakl, on which he also practiced as a translator. In addition of being a poet, he worked as a literary critic. In 2004, he got a stroke which affected and slow down his creativity.

Works

Poetry collections Infanzia (Società di Poesia, Milan 1984 - rist. Raffaelli, Rimini 2012); L’obbedienza (Crocetti, Milan 1986); Occidente (Crocetti, Milan 1990); Amore e destino (Crocetti, Milan 1993); Poesie (I Quaderni del Battello Ebbro, Porretta Terme 1993); Casa nell’ombra (Almanacco Mondadori, Milan 1993); Il Figlio (Jaca Book, Milan 1985); Il male e la luce (I Quaderni del Battello Ebbro, 1997); Amore d’autunno (Guanda, Parma-Milan 1998); Europa (Jaca Book, Milan 1999). Il gelo e la luce (Le Lettere, Firenze 2003); La pietà e la memoria (Edizioni ETS, Pisa 2003) ISBN 88-467-0782-6; D'improvviso e altre poesie scelte (Via del Vento edizioni 2006); Nel ferro dei balocchi (Crocetti, Milano 2008); Tibet (Le Lettere, Firenze 2011); Madre (Le Lettere, Firenze 2014); Il Segreto (Le Lettere, Firenze 2015); Amorosa sempre. Poesie (1980-2018) (La Nave di Teseo, 2018); Ablativo assoluto (AnimaMundi Edizioni, 2024);

Essays Il gesto di Callicle (Società di Poesia, Milano 1982); Il segreto e il dono (EGEA, Milano 1994); Le parole del pensiero (Le Lettere, Firenze 1995); Il male e la luce (I Quaderni del Battello Ebbro, Porretta Terme 1997); L’essere e l’abbandono (Il Ramo d’Oro, Firenze 1997); Nomi del Novecento (Le Lettere, Firenze 2000); Nome di donna (Raffaelli, Rimini 2010).