marcin
(Marcin)
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piece has been found again, the lost Molise,
through the journey into language: hence
the epic title of the collection, metaphor of a
voyage of the mind, not heroic, but simply
Orphic, as redemptive as dream, illusory as
words, “like a fly droning around a globe of
light.” Therefore the existential motif (the
search for the missing piece) in Rimanelli at
least combines with a strict linguistic and
literary “recherche.” Again Bonaffini
fittingly writes that “This return to origins,
so central to Rimanelli’s most recent work
and at the heart of the poems of Moliseide, is
a controlled, purposeful regression, a
remapping and a reordering of one’s life in
the light of a deeper and fuller
understanding. A regression ‘along the
planes of being’ through ‘the regression
from one language to another ─ anterior and
infinitely purer,’ as Pasolini described his