marcin
(Marcin)
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and XLVI (“that the sea ─ even the sea ─ told
him / the ruins and treasures in which his
life passed”), to realize this is a poet who has
been able to bring poetic Latin to a
dimension of great existential tension. He
has done the same with his poetry written in
the dialect of Cappella, in the province of
Naples. The poet has stated (Cf. Via terra ─
Antologia di poesia neodialettale) edited by
Achille Serrao): “to write in dialect...means
more and more... bringing to light my voice,
my imagination, my anthropological-
expressive identity that is rooted in an
archaic territory called Campi Flegrei.
Dialect, then, not as flight toward the past,
nor as negation of the hic and nunc, or not
merely this, but as undeferrable necessity to
discover my roots to the end, opening my
cultural patrimony to original and primal
elements.”