"Erato is the muse of love poetry: ergo, the title chosen by Roberto Mosi evokes the potential therapeutic capacity of writing in verse. Nothing new, but obviously we need to shift our attention to the presupposed element: because of what pathologies do we have to resort to the treatment of poetry?
The answer is not explicit. The author never declares which external factor determines the movement of the pen. We must therefore look for the reason for their writing in the verses themselves. The first disease that transpires is the absence of references, of places to find a home, in which to be "at home". So, at least, we read the different texts dedicated to physical places, mainly located in the city of Florence - where the author lives, which configure a transparent but very solid mapping in which not only Mosi, but also, with him, the reader ends up meet again, avoiding the disorientation caused by the many non-places, as Mosi calls them, declining a term so dear to Michel Foucault.
The second illness is the loneliness that compels us the monotony of every day, which is why we seek the best emancipation in art. We read in Word-poetry, which echoes the lesson of Mario Luzi of the "Baptism of our fragments", "Fly on the wings / of the voice / word - poetry / beyond the monotony of life." A sort of viaticum and blessing at the same time , which captures beauty and returns it in the form of new beauty.
Finally, poetry must heal from itself. The first text of the collection: "The grandfather works?" / "Yes". "What's your job?" / "Does the poet". / It's not my fault / if Anna believes this, / of her grandfather. "The poetry that absolves the guilt of practicing it, as an ineluctable destiny, or as a presumption that turns into assumption of responsibility, where it takes charge of the voice of others to turn it into song. It is no coincidence that Erato is also the muse of choral singing. "
Ginevra Grisi
in “Literary”, nr. 12/2017