And either it has the structure of a Greek drama: it opens with the prologue, it winds through its score with the last ones sung by the choir and the monodias, and ends with an epilogue. The author goes in search of the ancient mother, Greece, the origin of Western culture and civilization, to discover the shadow wedge of contemporaneity, the brutal and terrible truth, which, however, must be looked into the eyes to savor the substance of be entirely men.

Far from submissives, filiations and siren songs, the poetry of Grazia Procino is appreciated for its own personal expressiveness, immediately recognizable, which knows how to move words in function of a very direct communication able to respect both the reader and the reader. object of memory. Perhaps the most striking aspect of this work can be seen in the fine synthesis ability, which in some texts may recall the epigramatic happiness of Greek lyricists revisited in a modern key, with the contribution of an always wisely calibrated and full-bodied adjective. A poetic lesson, therefore, full of echoes and suggestions that ranks, with praiseworthy balance and exemplary maturity, among the most certain of today's Italian poetry.

Leopoldo Attolico -