by Ilaria Longo
Franco Arminio believed that "we need poets" because, probably, they almost mythological figures fail to look with new eyes the reality that surrounds it. In Cilento, fortunately, there are many poets and the year that began with a handful of days opens with a collection of poems by Menotti Lerro, the young poet of Omignano for Landolfi Editore has published 'Decanto', available from January 1.
Lerro defines his verses "stragglers children, raving, alcoholics, poor shadows arised in the evenings when he no longer wanted to be a poet," and - like Aldo Palazzeschi who loved poet but not defined "mountebank" - believed to be a "minstrel hilarious / exhilarated "preparing" lavish dishes. "
The poet, so, it unmasks and asks readers to make an effort to imagine these fantasies out of his new world of poetry. A poem at times ironic and almost irreverent because - as he rightly points out, using the words of Horace - "What is forbidden to speak the truth laughing?". To underline this hilarity there is also the graphic layout of the verses, in some circumstances, they are not neatly arranged and seriously on the page, but they create visual clutter.
In 'Decanto' return issues dear to the author as love and childhood, but there is also a verse that wants to be a journey in itself, in search of his innermost self. There are references to the newspaper "And then sghignare school, / Gelmini, Lady Renzi, / the Fioroni and a half Giannini" and the hardships of our times "to be favorable to my pre-carious / swinging fell glued encapsulated".
But despite this variety of issues addressed in this booklet agile, always comes back and forcefully life, since it is always the main man who lives with enthusiasm and with a subtle intoxication, every single day of his life.
The final poem in this anthology is the acrostic of the famous Latin motto "In vino veritas" that reminds us how life is deeply linked to memories, to all that for better or for worse marks our incrostandosi lived in the hearts and minds.