marcin
(Marcin)
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tumult of Stravinsky, we find a text that
denies agnitions by the sea or Mt. Vesuvius,
and stands on a promontory where there is
no room for vagueness or lyrical and
metaphysical indefiniteness. And yet pain
and feelings abound, but they do not
unthread in rivulets, in assonances, in
plaintiveness: they intend to remain what
they are, to exist without false unions.
Interesting, for a different reason, is the
poetry in the dialect of Cappella, in the
province of Naples, of Michele Sovente, who
adopts the mother tongue after writing in
Italian and Latin. Sovente, like almost all
contemporary dialect poets, is a man of vast
and refined culture, and his poetry (until
now available only in journals and
anthologies) is affected by this, maybe
because his education was too grounded on
the Latin classics, their quantitative music,