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poetry.
‘A canniatura, published by Editori
Associati di Roma in 1993, crowns Serrao’s
dialect journey (the preface is by Giacinto
Spagnoletti). The book shows expressive
suppleness while remaining on the course
charted by Di Giacomo, Capurro, Russo.
Moreover, there is in Serrao a feeling of
irritation towards all that has become sad
and trite; his poems are like crystals in which
Venetian glassmakers have put more lead
with respect to previous products, so that if
on the one hand there is a loss of sparkle, on
the other there is a gain in poetic-expressive
substance. Serrao does not abandon his
regional tradition, but wants to add to it that
touch of inexactness or too much exactness
that comes from the tradition of the
province, so that language may be validated
by it and become better organized. On the