marcin
(Marcin)
#1
Emblematic appears the poem “‘A
staffetta” (Prima cantu... e doppu cuntu, 1949),
dedicated to his friend Michele Pane, who
“sings” the journey of the poet’s daughter
from America to Calabria, “messenger of
love and sorrow.” The sentimental and
elegiac note that seems to prevail focuses on
the lyric representation of the details of the
journey and the town that the young woman
(Libertà) discovers again, almost borrowing
her father’s eyes so that she can better report
her impressions to him. Acquavona’s
fountain, the chestnut tree, the letters carved
on the bark of the tree, the old mill, the
river, the small house, the carnations in the
window, welcome Libertà like a fairy and
honor her, no less than relatives and friends,
in the name of her distant father who has
entrusted his identity to those signs, which
have become symbols of a world living only