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"The island"

, August 3, 2004 p.12.

The poetry of the sea in the verses of Palombo

Alessandro Palomba, IO SEA
Gloria Chilanti Photography, Introduction to Manrico Murzi, Note Editor George Weiss
A. Cassan - Liberodiscrivere

To wander in the skies of literary fame beyond the borders of the Elbe will be valuable in this book of the writings of its wings baby Manrico Murzi and George Weiss, the two poets of great renown. The first, Elba and doc-fledged citizen of the world and open to the wider experience, the second, well known in the Italian Parnassus, not Elba, but this so generous and active in the intellectual life of the island. It will add just that to venture with safe flight in the skies of poetry, not only of literary fame, the author has to With good food, gull-wing, to remain in key marine. You may greet with joy liking this book and a new presence on the island poetry, a voice that will certainly listen to and admire.

With its beauty emerged from the waves like that of Venus, Elba is the ideal place to create literature and poetry of the sea. As I write these lines I look at the tower of Marciana Marina, who has for years welcomed Brignetti Raphael, the greatest writers of our sea. Writer and poet of the sea very much appreciated the aforementioned Murcia. Two painters, my friends, each very different in style and temperament, and Italian Giancarlo Castelvecchi Bolano celebrated their works tirelessly in the sea from Elba. The second was designed the image of women-island, which is present in this book Alessandra Palombo, especially at the end. There is more of a harmony between this painter and poet that generated both, it seems, from the sea. After all, the poetic tradition with fully dedicated to the sea is not as rich as you could imagine. For Italy, the only large marine book that I can think of Montale and cuttle-bone, which is almost symphonic suite is the heart of the Mediterranean, which is the corresponding southern sea of \u200b\u200banother suite, this time Nordic, a Another great European poet: Nordsee, namely the North Sea in the famous Book of the songs (Buch der Lieder) of Heinrich Heine.

Despite what is commonly thought, the discovery of the beauty of the sea, pleasure beach and bathing and swimming and surfing, like the discovery of great potential poetic element is not an ancient ocean, even if the first great books of Western literature, The Odyssey. book is mostly ocean. The "discovery of the sea" dates from the eighteenth century and exploded in pre-romantic and romantic age. Anyone wishing to know more, consult a book published a few years ago very documented in Italian, The Invention of the sea by Alain Corbin. However, this is a great discovery especially interior, which enriches our lives and our sense of world, and this book Alessandra Palombo should also be read in this dimension of experience as a book full of inner enrichment. Some poematica will preside over the book, each section gets its name from the sea, from First to Seventh sea water. The sea beats the feeling, the rhythm, the future of a woman's life. The sea becomes word: in the echoes, in the fabric of alliteration and rhyme. The author's poems alternate with prose taken from the daily chronicle of a time long ago (made of tiny life recorded by the "Telegraph" newspaper in Livorno area, and great national tragedies like the kidnapping of Moro). in steps of poets and prose writers, in an open dialogue with the culture and history. It is a that full participation in the dialogue with the sea-solitary existence, which is above and beyond all history. The first step mentioned above, which gives the book as a sacred chrism of remote, is that of Genesis on the creation of the water. Gleaning here and there, to suggest to the reader the flavor of at least some glimmers of sustained poetic writing and soul searching, I quote several passages from the book and distant from each other. "Find me in my sea / to see who I am." "It's time to embrace the soul / to retrieve the future." "The southwest wind got up to bring a innocent love, perched on the wind for hours, in order to see the intrepid eat beach." Really happy this attack: "I've never seen the sea for the first time." And what about these three girls in a dressing gown? "The blonde aspired to pleasure, /, the notice to the love of a black / red to a soft flame." "Vibrate the ship was traveling in the dark / with its all coming back on the island." "Water bride sky sea water." "The woman island / is the Lady of the water / is the same island. / She remains mute itself. " When, in the final Postscript find lines like these "The horizon is deep / I am the horizon, I can think of any way that poetry is not superficial a path of inner realization, in some ways an example. To use the language, to my mind very suggestive, the deep psychology of Jung, was built here, through the intense contact and identification with the sea-life that is too deep, and mystery, through immersion in the sources amniotic symbolized by the water marine, and the gradual revival of every season of life emerged, a process towards self-realization. That is, towards the integration of the individual self in the fullness of a more complete and total destiny: the image of the horizon is this fundamental human experience perfectly.

Emeric Giachery