The buffalo and the child confronts us with a clever articulation scanned into five thematic sections, in a variety of dynamic environments chrono-geographical, iridescent in a variety of languages, intonations, stylistic models. Opposite, in summary, a youth intellectual and spiritual happily in conflict with the advanced biological age.

The new anthology of Masina, multifaceted writer and poet in particular lyric softness and set of tough hardening prophetic, culminates in a kind of "courting of death" before, and paradoxically justified by a beautiful hymn to the new life, the miracle of motherhood the mystery of the interpenetration of body and soul in the embryo: and the soul blossomed. The paradox, really only apparent, is that to defuse the tragic anguish with which our human frailty looks to the extreme step is precisely the sense of unbroken continuity of life under a system of infinite generations: the sense, or rather feeling, that each new birth awakens in our hearts adult, nurturing the hope of the believer in a survival endless beyond earthly finitude.

(from the Foreword by Marco Beck)

Viet Nam

Le Alte Terre azzurre e blu, lontane

all’orizzonte, e qui trema

la luminosa lastra

delle risaie.

Sulla groppa del bufalo il bambino,

assonnato padrone,

scalcia senza pensare.

S’incanta

l’airone pellegrino sulle prode.

(La guerra lontanissima appare,

ma non ai vecchi,

in perenne ascolto).

Possa il futuro sorridere

come un canto della mia donna.

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