La parola da casa, Serena Piccoli

I saw Gabe Gudding read last night at Myopic Books. The reading was humorous, except for a poem about the killing of a dolphin, which was disturbing. Gudding has definitely tapped into the tradition of invective poetry in the West. A poet has to be extremely good at the invective, like Villion or Cecco, to be read after the object of the invective has faded. I don't say that as criticism of Gudding, but often in time the object of invective fades or the invective is only read because of what the poet rants on about, like Cecco with Dante.