IN THE “NOSSIDE 2005” AN HARDEN DIAGRAM OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY

The “Nosside 2005”, registering a special participation of worldwide authors, imposes itself as an harden exemplary diagram of contemporary poetry. Different styles and languages are tested, the most intriguing thematic meet: the wish of human being to be reflected in a crystal of enigmas, in a universe of images ready to multiply the unknown and his giddiness in the word: island and labyrinth, sound and silent, prompt communication and elaborate workshop remains the common denominator.
“Unique indivisible asset”, “lizard” observing remotely, the sadness is fleeting and wears out in a secret time: Rosa Silverio sings this unique and thin feeling in lyric of strong intimate Valency that, going from the stagnant swamp of inertia to the endless flight of dreams, succeeds in finding an “anchor”. Amazed by a cosmic shiver, Marissa Flora Arroyal descends in the “womb of the earth” and in the meantime in the time contractions every vision syllabizes a Holy light. From remote darkness of psyche these two lyrics emerge to the borderless magnitude of imaginary, of obsessions and revival.
But beside such line of upset events twists, with Fernanda Dannermann, the daily chronicle of the grey little world, all haunted and tired, of leafs and gardens, of a face in the window, among autumns and dying roses and eyes always fixed on the same points. The circle of minimal thing is unchangeable where anyway a story seems to expand to always remain the same. There are, then, in the short and stunned text of Maria Carmela Errico, the “shame” of sun within courts visited by the shadow, or, in the wider elegiac breath of Maria Cristina Pannunzio, the “amazement” so blazing to hide even Paradise. In the limited measure of a visual impression or in the modulate memorial cadence a rhythm of anxious research of objects becoming horizons increases. In this zone of universes surrendered to the roaming going of looks of solitaire figures break into - and this is the case of Andrija Radulovic poetry – the clamorous faces of a chorus. They and the gipsies scattering colours in the fields toning their song: Bandages and fires in a orgy of fugitive silhouettes with a “smell of spring”.
If proposals of winners of “Nosside” are allocated in a library of important literary level, also results of Special Mentions indicate the territory of an excellent expressive figure.
Strong lines glimpse that associate the full of meanings sign to organized structures with erudite strength. From the consciousness of irreplaceable function of poet, enounced by Giuseppe Ambrogio (“Sing poet and send a message / to many people which is dull and dumb…”) and from the awareness of their wild-eyeing, underlined by Patricia Cabezas (“But the light enters the abundance of your eyes…”), to the scenographic effects obtained by Ana Maria Gonzales (“Virile fury of your Indian body trembles, Uruguay, your golden mother of pearl cheek of sun and sky…”) and to the miniaturized report, by work of Fausta Genziana Le Piane, of an insignificant fact anyway arousing a perplexity status (“Accompanied by grandmother, / baby girl rattles, slowly / in the sidewalk…”) and to the unreal inventories, drafted by Fernanda Mulin de Assis, of existential engagements (“I scream, ask, cry in my soul, / to acts mitigating this people hating…”), various languages find, into the intense reasons of present problems, the expressive results more engaging: now spectacular, now decent and refolded.
Metaphor of visible bustle of dreams, the breeze of evening at riverside builds, in the lyrical speech of Thomas Mussenge, an intrigued tissue of annotations articulated by a variable song. To the “roots” that “walk from heart” Antonio Nucera refers pointing everything on memory and never disdaining some narrative excerpt. For Domenico Labate landscape and ideas melt in a dashing and heartfelt monolog, in which different tones melt in a unique borderline strip, between the not lived and the not thought.
The suave cadence of a sweet music, printed on a delicate and affecting image declines in a communicative text dedicated by Vittorio Merlo to a “little flower”. Bolder and slenderer in an anomalous rabble of emotions, other lyric and music, composed by Laura Seragusa, is intoned to the land as “thirst and crying” and shout wishing justice.

Giuseppe Amoroso
Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Messina
and President of jury of the XXI Nosside