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La poesia, “una gemma nell’irrisolto”

GABRIELLA MONGARDI
I confess: Trial of the nine by Giuseppe Carracchia (Giuliano Ladolfi Editore, 2017) has conquered me from the first pages, because I found the words that I love the most, "scientific" and "alpinistic" words: mine will not be a review cold and detached, but a reading that will hunt for gems, that is, precious words in themselves or made such by the connection with the others, from those callidae iuncturae that - Horace teaches - create dazzling metaphors.
And here - I repeat - such gems abound from the opening poetry, in which it is instinctive to see in those "furious or botanical mathematicians" the counter-poems of the poets, who live in situations of marginality ("the suburbs of Russian frost", "literally dead starvation of hardship "), but sometimes manage to dictate, with an obsolete communication tool such as the" handset ", their solutions to" problems / that most do not imagine / but live day after day ". Like those cornets, poetry is a communication tool of other times, out of fashion and out of place - the poet seems to tell us that he can not renounce it. Poetry is a form of resistance - or resilience - to the senselessness of the world, to the tapestry of the times, in the name of "a fifth dimension, longed for / salvation", "in search of the point that vanishes history / and rips or time or put ears to the pages ".
The poet's task is "to trace unknown maps from evil to good", "to learn how to fly, climb over, look / patiently doors / scattered here and there, hidden" and how does the mountaineer - another expert on overhangs - recognize "on walls of granite [...] cracks and faults "where to cling to" push our history up ".