marcin
(Marcin)
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Future.”
To summarize, Luigi A. Trofa is a
singular exponent of the history of Molisan
poetry in dialect, a precious link between old
and new, tradition and innovation, and
fundamentally with a very particular and
noteworthy awareness of the possibilities of
language: in this sense Trofa is closer,
beyond chronological divisions, to today’s
experimental writers ─ such as Rimanelli, for
instance ─ than he is to his contemporaries,
fixed upon a conservative position, in every
sense (intellectual and psychological, as well
as linguistic), perhaps with the exclusion of
Cirese only, who was also, however, very far
from conceiving and realizing certain
“daring” constructs. Enlightening, in this
regard, are once again the words of L.
Fontanella, who in his introductory essay to
Trofa’s poetry cites a few reflections by