marcin
(Marcin)
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passage of his inner self that pursued the
gesture, the sigh, the scent of words ancient
and new that had remained on the sideline
(or, if you like, in ambush), but ready to
release their energy if pushed into the
struggle by a feeling that melted into song
through means known only to the
miraculous unions that take place in the
“occasions” of poetry. Franco Loi first, in the
preface to Mal’aria [Evil Air], in 1990, and
Franco Brevini later have underlined the
innovative elements Serrao introduced in
the Campania tradition. And Cesare Vivaldi
stressed the “hard and closed dialect... and
yet very sweet, whispered, full of
diminutives” to point out how the poet has
been able to employ the linguistic
instruments, forcing them to clash and then
wresting from them that knelling sound
which is the imponderable component of