After examining the main theoretical and philosophical references on the “Incomplete writing”, the article discusses a series of phenomena sharing the common traits of the unfinished and the discontinuous, which characterize much of late 20th-century Italian poetry. Special attention is devoted to the macroscopic effects of the unsaid, stark procedures of thematization, modules of the correctio and disjunctive structures. The resulting type of textuality in recent poetry is one where emptiness and semantic fracturing become not only the subject of discourse but also the mode of representation.