Salvatore Toma
Salvatore Toma (11 May 1951 – 17 March 1987) was an Italian poet. A restless soul, part of the so-called wave of the Italian "cursed poets", he died in 1987, aged 35; although it has been claimed it was a suicide, he had been hospitalized due to poor health, after a lifelong struggle with alcoholism. Salvatore Toma was born into a family of florists in Maglie, in the southern Apulian province of Lecce, Toma attended high school, but he would not continue his studies, even though he kept researching intensely the poets he loved.
Salvatore Toma
- Name
- Salvatore Toma
- Born
- 11 May 1951
- Birthplace
- Maglie, Apulia, Italy
- Died
- 17 March 1987
- Place of death
- Gagliano del Capo, Apulia, Italy
- Occupation
- Poet
- Movement
- Poètes maudits
- Spouse
- Paola Antonucci
- Nationality
- Italy
- Languages
- Italian
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Salvatore Toma (11 May 1951 – 17 March 1987) was an Italian poet. A restless soul, part of the so-called wave of the Italian "cursed poets", he died in 1987, aged 35; although it has been claimed it was a suicide, he had been hospitalized due to poor health, after a lifelong struggle with alcoholism. Salvatore Toma was born into a family of florists in Maglie, in the southern Apulian province of Lecce, Toma attended high school, but he would not continue his studies, even though he kept researching intensely the poets he loved.
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During his lifetime he published six collections of poems, from 1970 to 1983. In 2005, Italian film director Elio Scarciglia made a documentary movie on Salvatore Toma, inclusive of testimonies and titled Il bosco delle parole (The Forest of Words).
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• Name — Salvatore Toma • Born — 11 May 1951 • Birthplace — Maglie, Apulia, Italy • Died — 17 March 1987 • Place of death — Gagliano del Capo, Apulia, Italy • Occupation — Poet • Genre — Free verse • Movement — Poètes maudits • Spouse — Paola Antonucci
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- 1.Toma, Salvatore. Canzoniere della morte. Einaudi. 1999.
- 2.Biography. Vialetrastevere.
- 3.Schimperna, Susanna. Salvatore Toma, uomo complesso e poeta eccentrico. HuffPost. 17 March 2026.
- 4.Toma, Salvatore. Canzoniere della morte. Einaudi. 1999.
- 5.Il bosco delle parole. ElioScarciglia.it.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 8
- Poesie (Prime rondini) (Poems (First Swallows)), Rome (1970)
- Ad esempio una vacanza (For instance, a vacation), Rome (1972)
- Poesie scelte (Selected Poems), Catanzaro (1977)
- Un anno in sospeso (A Year in Suspension), Poggibonsi (1979)
- Ancora un anno (Another Year, Yet), Cavallino di Lecce (1981)
- Forse ci siamo, Lecce (1983)
- Per Salvatore Toma, poeta in esilio (For Salvatore Toma, Poet in Exile), Maglie (1997)
- Canzoniere della morte (Canzoniere of Death), Milan (1999)
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