His work dealt with modern urban representations, the states of memory, nostalgia, and longing, using an expressive and evocative style of writing.
[2] Corrado Govoni was an Italian poet whose work emphasized "the minutiae of daily life".
[3] Prolific author,[4] he can be considered as a member of both: the crepuscolari, or "twilight poets," and of the futurist movement.
[5] In Florence, as a young man, Govoni met the poet Giovanni Papini, who helped him to publish his first book of poems, Le fiale, in 1903, a volume "full of exotic images, difficult and rare rhymes, and unusual lexicon interspersed with archaic vocabulary".
[6] Govoni’s works, during his long literary career, exhibits characteristics of many different literary currents and styles: while his early poems exhibited a ‘liberty-symbolism’, later in his career their style shifts towards crepuscolarsimo and futurism.