Giving voice to memory
Two titles in dialect of Franco Loi, after more than twenty years back from Einaudi Isman (pp. 122, € 10,50) and Francis Granatiero that eight years after his previous most important ("Eneco", that nest egg) released his new book, Scùerzele (or "Clearance"), for Editions of the Roman COFIN (pp. 112, € 9.00), with a foreword and afterword by Donald Valli Achille Serrao. Two very different poets, yet comparable. Loi open to the wind of a Milanese by instinct and invention, Granatiero cocooned in the wire of a dialect (like the Gargano in the morning), also explored for grammar. The first dowsing and brilliantly prophetic (here more than ever to listen to the divine), the second bound (subject to exceptions) to the rules of art and meticulously cared for with more secular breath. Both taken from the common fascination or the need to say that comes from the "memory" (and "fear") that "gray area" in which the act of sub-consciousness. Granatiero that case: "Na vouch annatavanne, / affunne, strapòrte me, / na or nu vouch cummanne" (A voice elsewhere, deep, I carry a voice or a command). Loi that announces in its interior and Dante's "firm": "Dent the word I lost me lose / (...)/ and if I speak to no one who is to speak" (Inside the lost word I disappear, and whether I speak do not know who is talking).
Two titles in dialect of Franco Loi, after more than twenty years back from Einaudi Isman (pp. 122, € 10,50) and Francis Granatiero that eight years after his previous most important ("Eneco", that nest egg) released his new book, Scùerzele (or "Clearance"), for Editions of the Roman COFIN (pp. 112, € 9.00), with a foreword and afterword by Donald Valli Achille Serrao. Two very different poets, yet comparable. Loi open to the wind of a Milanese by instinct and invention, Granatiero cocooned in the wire of a dialect (like the Gargano in the morning), also explored for grammar. The first dowsing and brilliantly prophetic (here more than ever to listen to the divine), the second bound (subject to exceptions) to the rules of art and meticulously cared for with more secular breath. Both taken from the common fascination or the need to say that comes from the "memory" (and "fear") that "gray area" in which the act of sub-consciousness. Granatiero that case: "Na vouch annatavanne, / affunne, strapòrte me, / na or nu vouch cummanne" (A voice elsewhere, deep, I carry a voice or a command). Loi that announces in its interior and Dante's "firm": "Dent the word I lost me lose / (...)/ and if I speak to no one who is to speak" (Inside the lost word I disappear, and whether I speak do not know who is talking).
JOHN TESIO
"La Stampa, Tuttolibri, March 9, 2002
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