How do you save a poet?

| POETRY COLLECTION | A selection out of 33 poems from "How do you save a poet?" (Come si salva un poeta?)

On the cover "I walk alone" © Laurel Holloman

FROM THE PREFACE

Several are the themes showed in the collection, but there's a main thread: the poet and poetry. The poet's life and the poetry's life resurface duly as if I questioned about today's poetic situation. Still, my poems gushed out casually, not programmed, not studied: when I heard the sounds, and the words coming along, I wrote them down. I figured it out only later that the poet's figure and the poetry's role where there, so that's how the real theme of the collection formed.

Sometimes I think I deal with rights and duties when I write a poem or a fairytale. More often it is only a need, a call or a declaration. Literature has always been this: to not permit the barbarization, to not permit that something could change honesty, the purity of birth, the purity of the primordial faith in the primitive feeling.