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

not a mere intellectual project, but a deep

need, a necessity of poetry and therefore

natural experimentation, the kind that

should always be inherent in any work of

art.

Marè first two volumes moved almost

guardedly, under the weight of a past that

claimed its rightful share; then, as Brevini

noted, he “comes out of his own poetic

prehistory.”

Sìllabe e stelle [Syllables and Stars] ─ it is

perhaps not by chance that the preface to the

book is by Mario Lunetta ─ already offers in

the meter a Marè who displays full mastery

of his expressive tools. The verses become

dense, syncopated, only rarely do they come

to rest on a hendecasyllable, and

immediately come undone in a sort of

running sprint that finds him ready to react

and to entrust to them even those nuances