Within twentieth-century poetry, Andrea Zanzotto’s work showcases intellectual rigour and stylistic innovation. This book explores his poetry’s legacy throughout all his poetic works, unveiling fresh insights across, although not limited to, lyric theory, environmental humanities, cinema studies andanthropology.

‘Making original use of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of "minor literature" and its power to shift boundaries and enable new forms of becoming, Roberto Binetti reads the work of Italian women poets who transform the contours of lyric poetry and its political valencies. An exemplary account of how new lyric voices can break down binary oppositions while finding different forms of subjectification and self-representation.’ – Jonathan Culler, Cornell UniversityPoetics of Becoming...