marcin
(Marcin)
#1
in Sole 24 ore (August 7, 1994).
Many conjectures have been made on
Pignatelli’s identity: Luigi Amendola
suggests the Name of Giorgio Napolitano;
Luigi Reina tends toward a known poet who
likes to “experiment” in different styles.
Whoever he may be, there is the reality of
his poetic writing, forged over a flame
capable of consuming cultural and even
erudite dross in order to produce verses of
rare transparency and intensity. One
perceives in many poems of Pe cupia’ ‘o
chiarfo an expressive energy that, as Valery
used to say, involves “all the resources of
experience and intellect” to obtain results
that seem “great metaphysical
anguish...reduced to small domestic cares”
(Laforgue).
I find that the group of new Neapolitan
poets (Achille Serrao, Michele Sovente,