Gianfranco Barcella, Savona Birth, offers readers the second poetry collection entitled emblematic: "Book-board." This diary existential verse is the chapter that continues the poetic narration of "Our". The first was entitled "Seaside" and the author confessed to him as it was impossible to make the journey to the infinite, symbolized by the sea. In "Book-board" confides his attempt to take the still sea, a test clumsy because inadequate to address the magnitude of the mystery, haunting, but overwhelming (Navigo for marine dark without headlights nor stars of the night / in the travails of winds and waves without singing of compliance immoral, emphasis by an unknown artist.
Drifting to the moire eternal rest ...) His poetry is driven by a constant compass: the Beauty as refined grace of life, tender and aggressive at the same time, already evident in his first book, together with a tragic tension, sometimes tinged by painful irony. With the help of Beauty manages to confide their pain, but also to live it with courageous patience through the vicissitudes of life (is the eternal life of beauty that does not know and apparently true).
The verses newer lose the lightness of his youth, but buy a new thickness: the vital and urgency to love are sometimes overwhelmed by visions dramatic and dark, but the wording lyrical always retains a particular tone of sophistication and linguistic purity. The poetry is marked by a constant tension between the thirst for the absolute and the need for "inner calm", expressing the torment of a soul always looking for himself in constant relationship with the sea. The knowledge of pain is therefore central to the poetics of Barcella, who would still surrender to the certainty of a safe haven without abandoning sentimental or consoling escapes. Can not accept the idea of the sinking as the end of the experience esisten ruling. His language rarely favors the tone conversational and discursive, but at the same time exceeds the traditional rhetorical forms with great expressive autonomy. Portrays the world with the eye of those who does not fear the abyss, but it has profound consciousness, having seen firsthand.
The continuous oscillation between reality and allegory, in search of the night side of things, revealed by the light of the sunrises marine, give the work of Barcella also an absolute originality. The dominant feature of his is to diversify the lightness that perfectly blends the fantastic plan that realistic-descriptive. Another feature is the constant presence of the author that emerges through autobiographical references that rise to the role of universal voice. The lyrical first is always present in a poem that does not want to be only private confession, but existential complaint.