marcin
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hero (“Rapsodia Garibaldina,” 1949); and as
such destined to become a myth, against
profiteers, usurers, Bourbonists, followers of
Crispi, braggarts, abettors, thieves, jackals.
The controversy takes up a canonical theme
of Calabrian literature, not unlike what
happens in the passages where the poet
breaks into patriotic song, evoking episodes
of 1848 and 1860. Calabrian as well is no
doubt the paramount source of the erotic
tension that runs through one of the
American collections (Peccati [Sins], 1916),
played between popular motifs and ludic
metaphors, whimsical and goliardic.
The political element prevails openly,
instead, in the poetry of Pasquale Creazzo
(1875-1963). As a consequence, an ideological
reading of his work has always been favored.
But when it is stripped of adversarial
connotations, often resentful, shouted,