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

from him it has become indispensable to

look for contaminastion.” This

contamination takes place in Célinian

fashion first in Verso novunque [Verse

Nowhere] and then in Controcore

[Counterheart] which take us inside a

disorientating dimension of precariousness,

even linguistic. But in this disorientation

there is no estrangement, rather the

opposite, with that lucid analysis of the

world that crumbles and gets stranded on

the neurotic possibilities of the inhuman

disarray of a race toward nothingness. In this

poetry there is all the muriatic acid of a

civilization whose rhythm is constantly

thrown off by the need of a relationship

with life that Marè pursues in plenitude and

enchantment and that puts him ill at ease

primarily for the senses that appear and

disappear, offer themselves and combine