Author

Cavalli, Guido

Guido Cavalli (Parma, 1974) is an author and editor at the philosophy journal Kasparhauser (www.kasparhauser.it). He has published three collections of poetry: Piccolo canzoniere selvatico (Manni Editori, 2005), Nel castagneto (with preface by Claudio Risé and afterword by Giovanni Ronchini, Edizioni Diabasis, 2015), and Salita al lago Padre (with illustrations by Andrea Bovaia, Manni Editori, 2018). His work appears in magazines, anthologies, and miscellanies (LietoColle, Bertoni editore, Puntoacapo edizioni, Mup). He has published two novels (Cielo di paese, Mobydick, 2001; Scaramuccia∗ Mobydick, 2004) under the collective pseudonym Errico Malò, as well as several short stories for newspapers, magazines, and anthologies (Guanda, Mup, Aliberti). Guido Cavalli holds a Ph.D. in Pedagogy from the Catholic University of Milan; his research focuses on the city and processes of urban transformation and regeneration, as well as health and generative welfare. He studied musical composition at the Boito Conservatory in Parma and philosophy at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. He works in communications for the nonprofit sector and serves as president of the Magnete Community Center in Milan (www.magnete.mi.it).

Publications in The Rang Yan Review

Poetry

From In the Mouth of Language contemporary

Guido Cavalli

Before meaning, there is the void: breath, phoneme, the blind materiality of sound from which both language and the speaking subject precariously emerge. Moving through prelinguistic memory, the corporeal genesis of the word, and the constitutive encounter between “I” and “you,” these texts dismantle the fantasy of language as a transparent instrument of sovereign consciousness, revealing it instead as a generative process in which bodies, identities, and worlds take shape through an endless, unfinished negotiation between sound and sense.

  • poetry
  • translation
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