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

and those subtle glosses of the spirit that live

outside the sheet of paper and often become

the very essence of the composition.

When Marè was utilizing Belli’s and

Trilussa’s traditional poetic or sarcastic

realism, he remained bound to subjects that

did not disdain the social element and

therefore the descriptive and, in the final

analysis, sententious commentary, maybe at

the margins; now his poetry is prompted by

a need to look inside himself and an almost

hermeneutical need to comprehend what is

happening to words and hence to poetry.

Giacinto Spagnoletti has discerned in

Verso novunque, 1988, the harrowing anguish

of a human and poetic condition that makes

of Marè an author who has rejected the

facile exultation of poetry in order to put

back into it a density of life which would

otherwise have been lost. This entails a