marcin
(Marcin)
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the southern peasants, of their seasonal
work, of their unslaked thirst for freedom
and happiness. Granatiero evokes and
contemplates, but also empathizes and
condemns, understands and gets angry.
Lyricism and social participation are the two
sides of this poetry.
As an exponent of the last generation of
dialect poets in Apulia, Granatiero
summarizes the encounter of two types of
discourse that intersect with increasing
awareness at the terminus of this kind of
artistic expression. On the one hand, the
valorization of the least conscious details, of
the deepest sensations; on the other, the
desire to “narrate,” in poetry, a part of
history, by this means recovering communal
memory.
Criticism: T. Bolelli, La Domenica del
Corriere, July 21, 1984; P. Gibellini, Diverse