"Falsa Partenza" on Pelagos

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False start (Ladolfi, Borgomanero in 2014) is the title of the poetry collection esordiale Guido Mattia Gallerani (born in 1984), tied to a perceptibly sovereign word which rises from the surface to follow a specific direction: the Proustian recherche that delimits the range, especially in the first part, but also a consciousness that casts shadows, signs of happening sometimes incomprehensible human nell'inquieto movement of men and women. In this second meaning of the verse takes on an existential tone of those who know that deep down, there is another stranger, escapes us.

 

Andrea Gibellini , in a statement, referring to " a potential place " where are woven wonders and defeats, antinomies compatible , of course, to explore perception and imagination that are the salient points on which turns the verse. A poem that announces bodies and souls , ghosts and identity : " In the winter when the snow / equals things / mole comes out here to treason. / A trace of ghost maybe / disguised in the middle of the white . "

Yet Gallerani adheres to life , even in a dimension that seems decidedly at odds with the trends of the last generations of Italian poetry , jagged , dispersive , which veer towards the mazes slang and construction methods mostly experimental .

This is not a figure abstracting process , indeed emerging aspects of communion with an archaic world , but lost in practice, as in one of the texts of opening, the most beautiful : " The house in the woods / prey haemorrhage moss / after having had many owners / nails and stripped from the walls / is now out of the pile / prone to slide on the mountain, far away from everything . " The experience is lived in a kind of magic, of still images that highlights the diptych space-time and a noble civilization perhaps confined to the campaigns of the pre- Apennines of Modena , or the natural world , from the undergrowth , interest rate, beavers, raccoons .

A poem , among others, is striking in its precision and beauty stunned between the sign and the dream, the perfect emblem of childhood , loss , loss that leads to the growth hastily adulthood. In particular the last part , poignant , qualifies as high in evocation , nell'ipersensibilità hidden : " And the ball ... / embedded on the mobile / it is no longer yours. / E ' dream of another / puer that beats to the wind : / home run your hand / grab that despite the damp / timber that now the Tarla / can not oltretempo / against that of destiny / you speak , agguantarla . "

There is also a section ironically titled "Ads by literary magazines " that exudes mood on the falsity of stereotyped patterns of a consumer society that poetry makes even a bargaining chip : " Proven business models / recruit aspiring poets / min New Topics / carers for the role ... " .

But this interlude is also an indictment of the careless and undone Italian literary reality in his official capacity . That is another model recalcitrant , self-righteous , ready to cheer with excesses and distrust with equal pride. Guido Mattia Gallerani return, finally , to the element descriptive and emotional , reabsorbed by the sight , distension , the presence of elements rarefied , as would record objects that are formed in his mind even before the filing of the eye. The resonance is at one with the lure with a vital and transience hidden in some rounded top and sloping sides of Emilia .

Alessandro Moscè