marcin
(Marcin)
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real and surreal, as in Circannu Asturfu (1986)
and Pilariu (1988), but also phantasmagoric
popular revivals, as in U Fistinu (1986); all in
a poetic language which has absorbed the
fervid humors of Twentieth-Century
European poetry, expressed in a personal
way in quatrains of classical perfection.
Giuseppe Giovanni Battaglia (1951) from
Alimusa, is tied to the vein of social poetry,
with poems that display the dryness of
Montale’s cuttlefish bones, in a totalizing
dialect. in La terra vascia [The Lowland]
(1969), La piccola valle di Alì [The Small
Valley of Alì] (1972), L’ordine di viaggio
[Travel Order] (1988), Battaglia is with Calì ─
but very different from him ─ the last
representative of the line marked by
Mercadante, but with the peculiarity of a
driller of words. Moreover, his realism has