In the personal recherche Alessandro Russo, the poetic coagulates around the theme of the land, the peasant lost civilization and as a poignant love , shapes , ancestors of reference, with echoes Pascoli . It tells the poet that his grandfather was sitting quietly by the fire and watched him : "And I loved the silence because I believed that my grandfather was teaching me to listen ." He read in the shade of an olive tree , looking at the sunny hills , he heard the voices of peasants from one farm to another . If it rained , the reading table ended up under the window, and the young Alexander, Alexander the child, "breathed the strong smell of the earth, the scent that emanates in the end, as if you open up to offer me the best part ." And so , "It was then that these poems were born . I figured just getting older . " With a confident and candid exergue, ("Only poetry can save the man" : Ungaretti ), Russian ranks in the wake of Proustian remembrance of ' lost time ', nostalgia , universal feeling . The book has a foreword by Vincent Guarracino : " You may want more from a poem if you do not know what to say what he wants to say , that the loyalty to a node essential, in the heart of one's being adults? » . In a " perpetual circuit of death and rebirth ' into a ' harmonious system "; these poems , he says Guarracino are illuminations, idylls " in verse net and rigorous brief contained in the breath of an image, a thought."
" There is a house and there is a ground / that made me the man I am "; notes Russo. If a man cultivates the field, the child does not know that and work, but it looks "like a different man / who knew what was the rest." The poetics and soon said , in proceeding of the illuminations, sometimes clear, sometimes vague : " ... I consume that moment / before the word ' hope that the reader can" be anything , even a bittersweet taste » : and then you can " wonder. / / Stop and think for a moment / / it does not always understand that and told you everything ."
On this unsaid about these silences , it builds the poetics of Russian . In the afterword, the editor Giuliano Ladolfi note that the earth is often portrayed with physical metaphors , and that the model and the Pavese of Hard Labor , with "the perception of Heidegger ' ' be ' and' to 'be there '," in an observation of human limitation that invokes the Absolute. Alessandro Russo is 37 years old , and Como and - he says - still has not learned the art of living .
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