Grammatica degli spettri. La poetica reticolare e relazionale di Ulrike Draesner.

A Grammar of Ghosts. Ulrike Draesner’s Reticular and Relational Poetics In my contribution, I take up some questions raised in Alessandro De Francesco’s essay The Ontologi cal Spectrum, which opens the first part of issue 70 of «Semicerchio», already dedicated to text-nature, the poetics of the hyperobject and «post-apocalyptic» poetry, and put them into dialogue with some of Ulrike Draesner’s theoretical lines, expressed in her lectures on poetics published under the title Grammar of Ghosts. In particular, I bring together themes dealt by De Francesco such as the critical redefinition of the so-called ‘lyric self’, to be understood as «part of a network that transcends its subjectivity», «ontologically not separated» in its «substance» from other subjects and objects; the self and the text rethought as evolutionary products of the same substance that appears as a manifestation of nature, according to different degrees of intensity; the text as a complex entangled system, interrelated with other systems; the possibility of looking at the functioning of such systems in their instability and dependence on their surroundings; the dialogue with science and philosophy, and poetry’s ability to expand our spectrum of perception of the world through «knowledge without understanding». The essay refers to figures of thought in contemporary science, from the theories of complexity and non-locality to quantum physics, linked to the relational and reticular poetics expressed by Ulrike Draesner in her theoretical writings and artistic practice.