Poetry can bring about change, create a space of silence that allows us to listen, producing a break in the psychic forms that open the way to a confrontation with the world. Poetry lends itself to a vertical use of language (I use the term "vertical" not in the sense of ascent, of transcendence, but to indicate the fact of staying in the same place and do the same things, little by little, more and more clearly) . If in prose, for example, the horizontality is a feature difficult to avoid, in poetry, language can not be used to arrive at something that is outside of the language, but to open a space within its structure. In this way poetry can meditate on the language and not just talk about it, because it observes the making of the word, its progress. This is one of the possibilities of poetic writing, but it is said to be realized at every opportunity: some writers may remain a side issue, because others are the aesthetic goals. "
A poet, we conclude with a thought of Marianne Moore, "speak the language but the meditator: as well the power of the lion is in his paws."
Grazia Calanna