marcin
(Marcin)
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necessary growth in a larger context.
In his itinerary, the poet had
symbiotically sullied himself in the poor and
wild nature of rural Roseto, had distilled the
foam of the waves, had abandoned himself
to memories experienced without elegy; he
had also lost himself, had become resentful,
beguiled by the ruins of the metropolis
without being really able to belong, and had
tried to answer the numerous questions
crowding his mind by turning to his beloved
literature. The poets, first of all: the
cherished Baudelaire, Quasimodo,
Cardarelli, Saba, but also Jimenez, Lorca, and
then Borges and all the best tradition, not
only Western, combined with the classical
influences mythically stirring Maffia’s
imagination, always longing for new
experiences because never satisfied with his
achievements. Hence his tension towards
