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: 09 February 2017; Hits: 1153

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by Ilaria Longo

Franco Arminio believed that "we need poets" because, probably, they almost mythological figures fail to look with new eyes the reality that surrounds it. In Cilento, fortunately, there are many poets and the year that began with a handful of days opens with a collection of poems by Menotti Lerro, the young poet of Omignano for Landolfi Editore has published 'Decanto', available from January 1.

Lerro defines his verses "stragglers children, raving, alcoholics, poor shadows arised in the evenings when he no longer wanted to be a poet," and - like Aldo Palazzeschi who loved poet but not defined "mountebank" - believed to be a "minstrel hilarious / exhilarated "preparing" lavish dishes. "

The poet, so, it unmasks and asks readers to make an effort to imagine these fantasies out of his new world of poetry. A poem at times ironic and almost irreverent because - as he rightly points out, using the words of Horace - "What is forbidden to speak the truth laughing?". To underline this hilarity there is also the graphic layout of the verses, in some circumstances, they are not neatly arranged and seriously on the page, but they create visual clutter.

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: 09 February 2017; Hits: 1571

DECANTO on TgNews

After receiving a prestigious "Special Mention" in 2016 (among the three authors of the section "Poetry and Fiction") in the '100 Excellencies Italian National Award', it comes out in bookstores the fifteenth collection of poems by Menotti Lerro. The text is titled Decanto - Giuliano Ladolfi Publisher, with introductory notes of Davide Rondoni and Carlo Franza - and once again Lerro displaces the reader by presenting the poems avowedly 'In Vino Veritas': poems written in the evenings when he wanted to rejoice, or intoxicated with the precious juice of the earth (and the irony is the primary component in these verses). Texts, therefore, completely different than all his more sober and very rational (though always full of pathos) previous production. Attanaglierà much curiosity in the reader to want to discover the poetry and thoughts that cross the mind of this brilliant author when alcohol wins its most simple or profound resistance, or when the joys, the sorrows, all the memories, are de-sung by time and from memory.

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DECANTO on Corriere della sera

Carlo Franza writes: "These new poems by Menotti Lerro have the skin on fire, because a river runs into you like blood in the body: pages and texts written by the author as if he had been transported by an inescapable vortex, as if in a trance. [...] To this author, now in its full maturity built brick by brick to the sound of brilliant publications, the poetic speech function can also be to wonder, though rhythmically or incisively, the monotony of human speech, with its even minimal changes. "

Davide Rondoni in the introductory note to the book writes: "... the variety of tones is one of the advantages of this agile booklet - night in hell and wasteland on the Cilento coast and the city of Milan. And next to the lashing style of irony (and self-irony) we find the moments suspended in a lyrical, always thoughtful and vibrant ".

REVIEW

Menotti Lerro is a specialist of classical and contemporary English poetry. Of that tension that runs through the works of the English Romantic poets and contemporaries from Eliot onwards it absorbed the expressive power and the impulse to amplify the pain and reflection on the burdens of life, with all its contradictions. But that is not what defines his poetry.

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: 05 February 2017; Hits: 6850

IL FILO ROSSO interviewing the author

1) What is the motivation of the title The common thread? The wood that is pictured on the cover does hint at something?

Cicero said that a great orator is one who instructs speaking, beloved and at the same time moves the souls of the listeners. I hope to be in this sense, at the moment a good speaker and then, as a writer, seller of dreams, knows how to entice you to participate in my dreams.

Before clarifying the reasons that made me choose the title "The Red Thread" and to illustrate my book I would start by the choice of the cover. The background is red, as red is the blood, which, like life, fast flowing and warm in our veins, as red always depicts the intensity of the passions. This is a book that reveals and makes us partakers spectators.

You will be able to ask why there is the depiction of a stretch of woods .Dante gets lost in the dark forest of sin, instead of us just happened or happen to lose ourselves in the woods of feelings, where the trees mingle, intertwine leaning against each other . A few trees now annoyed falls to the ground, like the empty, finished stories, which, even death, hamper the progress. Dried branches are mixed with new shoots. Nothing dies that is not reborn in similar forms or different. The force of existence always takes over.

The feelings are varied, but always unique for its intensity and character in different individuals, the strongest and most enduring is the love. Like the thread of Ariadne, the common thread of love can guide us in our existential journey. It winds its sinuous, creating meanders lenses, runs fast, it is tied himself in knots lenses in tight knots and sore, presents, such as roses, some sort of thorns, this does not mean the feelings of their beauty, their fragrance . Following the thread of feelings, so nuanced and so numerous, you do not get lost. Do not follow the yellow wire of gold, the green of envy, the blue indifference, the white of the hallway, the black of negativity; these lead to other goals that involve the loss of themselves.

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: 05 February 2017; Hits: 1468

MOSI: POESIE 2009-2016 on CulturaCommestibile.com

"It's a traveling companion poem, this Roberto Mosi, an inner journey, marked mainly by time, as the title suggests rough," Poems 2009 - 2016 "(G. Ladolfi Publisher), a journey through before of all, the places not ,; airports, stations, but also hospitals, suburbs, markets because "it is in the anonymity of non-place that one feels in solitude the commonality of human destinies," according to the citation by Marc Augé which opens the volume, so:

«sulle banchine del metrò

nell’ora di punta

inceppato il fluire:

a Milano un vecchio signore

in veste da casa ha messo

fine alla sua vita,

stazione Amendola Fiera».

Even the classic reminiscences, references to ancient Greek poetry only serve to reveal, to paraphrase, a humanity sore and forgotten: «È forse simile a un dio

l’uomo che dorme in piedi

alla porta della stazione

discosto dal muro

i ginocchi piegati

la testa in avanti.

Intorno la folla del mattino».

And is the peaceful sensitivity and, at the same time acute, the author, who is the true leader of the trip, free and without rhetoric, deeply rooted in the experience of personal and working life, time for yourself and time for others , in foreign places, such as Mount Athos:

«Raggiungi la solitudine della cella

apri la finestra sull’oscurità

biancheggiante di onde.

Rispondi alla voce del Mediterraneo»

o nella sua città nei tempi passati:

«Sotto la loggia degli Innocenti

la ruota,la prima figlia esposta

fu chiamata Agata Smeralda»

o in quelli presenti:

«L’anello dei viali

ride dell’allegria dei giovani

giunti dagli angoli del mondo

per dipingere i colori della pace».

So the words evoke sounds and images of childhood as in the poem on Colonies:

«Io sono un punto,

la testa rapata

due grandi occhi celesti.

Rivive la valigia di cartone,

il canto di cinquecento ragazzi

schierati sul piazzale»

oppure riportano in vita momenti cruciali della maturità:

«si tagli l’arrosto più tenero

il colloquio con i nostri morti

diventi dolce e sommesso,

la vita ha generato la vita».

In this collection, the homo viator is not an emblem, says Giuliano Landolfi in the introduction, but it is always attentive witness; it is above all, through the words, living matter and button, immersed in the universe of sounds and colors of memory. "

Mariangela Arnavas

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: 05 February 2017; Hits: 1107

VITA NUOVA on Il Blog di Claudio Salone

The terms of the "Life N (u) ova" Joseph Hat, with this his recent compilation (NEW LIFE, Ladolfi, Novara, 2016, € 10) wants to mean poetically from the birth of her daughter Beatrice, is not fully explained in the taste the even alluded to quote "high."

They lead us back to a rather refined Cartesian plane, in which the phrase and paradigm always fix a point in space and time, real and ideal, personal and collective, private and public together.

Already the initial endecasillabo that gives the title to the first poem ( "The golden ripple Tiber") places with classical movenza the event generator in a historic concrete place, especially for those who, Roman, knows the intimate historical connection between the Tiber Sabine ( "life is still in the belly of the Sabine") and the birth of many children of Rome.

This dialectic between opposite polarity is particularly evident in one of the most beautiful poems of the collection, "The pendulum of God." Here the daily life, which has almost crepuscular tones, is constantly illuminated by reflection of cosmic flashes (milk and coffee, "dell'antimeridiana fuel" and the "salt of the iron ring" of the sea, the "reluctant will" of the first students now, you "pick-up" and who knows who teaches, next to the "struggle for the words of truth"), until the closing of the circle of eternal return, but never the equal, that redeems in love the way of the day ( "the vortex solves and I hold you / the jokes and kisses / infinite hands in our time together.").

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