This first work by Arturo Sannino is distinguished by the search for a personal and coherent poetic voice: a happily successful attempt both in the stylistic texture and in the overall architecture of the work.
We are faced with a poetry that starts from the concrete, the everyday and the skilful selection of details, but does not resolve itself into an intimist dimension, but rather ranges, albeit in a subterranean and subdued manner, into a meditative dimension that tends towards the universal.
In some poems, the descriptive and meditative dimensions interpenetrate to perfection, as in Il fascino delle erbacce (The charm of the weeds) or Lo scorcio dei vicoli serali (The glimpse of the evening alleys), while others stand out for the originality of their view of Naples.
These verses have the merit of being devoid of emphasis, direct and essential, almost like a whispered confidence, creating the ideal terrain for a warm empathy on the part of the reader (Bruno Galluccio).