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but resident in Collelongo), receiver of the

most prestigious regional awards (from the

“Teramo” to the “Pescara,” to the

“Francavilla” and “Lanciano”), author of

two collections to be numbered among the

best works of the second half of the

Twentieth Century (L’ora delle cose [The

Hour of Things] e Parlémene d’amore [Talk

to me of Love]), respectively from 1975 and

1978; Marco Notamurzi (Scanno), who in

Serena (1967) succeeds in capturing the

essence of feelings and things, in a solid,

spare verse; Salvatore Mampieri

(Introdacqua) who, in the anguished pages

of Na terre amara [Bitter Land], 1975,

privileges a choral lyric, lending a voice to

the joys and sorrows of his people; Luigi

Monaco (born in Rome from an Abruzzi

family), who in Val di contra (1976) is

capable of “giving a voice to the silences of