In a few years the authors of our memory of the classic acts with urgency and clarity to which Mark Beck has accustomed its readers. Just open one of his books to find themselves in the atmosphere of a docta poesis that can make living and contemporary, especially in narrative poems of evangelical inspiration, a more than thousand-year tradition, in which the voices of the Greek and Latin and echo nearly announce the wording of the Scriptures.
The stones will cry is also, from the title, a travel document and landscapes, a very mobile atlas experience. Generative, in fact, in the poetry of Beck is not only the speech act. One of its most original distinctive features is the very life that generates life, in an unbroken elegy of family affection.
Able to bring together in the same poem punctual Latin reminiscences and expressions of the most common everyday, Beck realizes every page of the program announced in the subtitle, a peremptory and most humble "poetry as life" in which it is not difficult to recognize the legacy of "literature as life "by Carlo Bo, that the same Beck was among the first and most ardent admirers (from Alessandro Zaccuri Preface).