Silence (Block Poem)Caruso, LucianoSilence (Block Poem), 1975. Autograph manuscript poem in Italian accompanied on each leaf by two rectangular collages of text in non-Roman alphabets covered by gauze.Luciano Caruso (1944-2002) was an Italian experimental poet, editor, and art critic based in Naples until 1976 and in Florence thereafter. He was a prominent practitioner of Italian visual poetry ("poesia visiva").mixed material