marcin
(Marcin)
#1
part, with a few variants, of the volume
L’odore della poesia, issued by the same
publisher.
This collection has remained one of the
most revealing of the excitement running
through Sicilian dialect poetry in those
years. The poet’s main themes of civil
commitment and sentimental autobiography
are further developed in Cremona’s
subsequent poetry in Italian, as he
abandoned the vernacular muse after that
first successful experiment.
G. Spagnoletti has noted how those two
veins of Cremona’s poetry “entwine in the
dialect texts in a two-colored braid1” and
how, for example, the melic idly rises in
verses of crystalline purity, whereas “in the
Italian poetry it is constrained by an
instinctive rejection of what is too easy,
already known.”2