marcin
(Marcin)
#1
constant attention on the part of the poet
toward all that combines and uncombines in
the flow of time: therefore Marè’s gaze
becomes unfocused, everything gets
deformed for him inside and out, everything
takes on the appearance of what in
figurative art has been called the poetics of
ugliness. In this ugliness, in this fluctuating
monstrosity of things that has the weight of
butterflies and the sticky consistency of rust,
there slips in the glimmer of a fire that
invokes salvation with a “desperate
optimism,” at least the salvation in the unity
of all things. “We are”, wrote Giorgio Patrizi,
“before a text that bears witness to the
existence in contemporary poetry, outside of
fashions and advertising hubbub, of a serious
and rigorous experimentation, capable of
coming to terms with contemporary reality
and with tradition, with the mind’s as well