Dialect Poetry of Southern Italy (Italian Poetry in Translation Book 2)

the search for the event, his apparent

yielding to the flow of thought

(contemplation, meditation, memory) that

strives to become images, feelings, passions,

colors, signs of civilization or existential

symbols. And he tries to capture a meaning

in every object through a repeated process of

personal dematerialization and refiguration

within the magic of words, capable of

transfiguring into myth even the smallest

event, the elementary acquisition, the

surprise or the discovery, the sudden jolt. A

continuous process of interiorization of the

world with its objects, which take on an

existential, humanizing significance only

through their potential for becoming

symbols. A journey of self-questioning that

leads to a progressive reduction of the

substance of what is outside the self, but

sublimating its relevance into subjective