The poetry of Amelia Rosselli presents an extremely disconcerting linguistic environment: traditional logical and expressive syntax is replaced by bold verbal combinations. Each poem seems the result of an improvisation, which, at the same time, is the fruit of great deliberation, of ideals and feelings of love nurtured for years, all of which find expression within her verse as a means of touching the heart of things. Pier Paolo Pasolini, in 1963, introduced some poems by Rosselli to the readers of the journal Menabò. He emphasized the importance of the linguistic and grammatical lapsus (error), not an involuntary infraction but a conscious creation. Language expands and becomes malleable in her poems. Nevertheless, the decidedly spare linguistic expression and the formal technicalities do not hide the human values of the works.

Her language expresses the anguish of a psyche that was shaken but not overcome, her strength being nourished...