Shadow Strategy (Italian Edition)

The fourth poetic collection of Sergio Zavoli published in "Specchio", The Strategy of the Shadow, confirms the hope expressed by Carlo Bo at the release of the first collection: "Zavoli had a poetic discourse in store that we hope will be long." Zavoli's poetic work shows a clear coherence between thought and language, highlighting the maturity of his vocation. His verses, revealing the "shadowed" zone of the poet's soul, do not tend to raise the tones, but confirm a deeply and stylistically rigorous choice.

This new book has a strength and grace, an irony and gravity that, in the tones of the more private "narration," are the fruit of a prestigious communicative commitment, already inclined towards a firm culture of the imagination and the real, of existence and civic-mindedness, of secularism and spirituality, in a way that does not interrupt, but rather reiterate, Carlo Bo's explicit judgment, according to which "the verses destined for the arcane design of a creation that constantly forces us to a difficult choice well restore a kind of sacred alarm" in the face of the "infinite crossroads." To which "the master of so many human voices - the master of the 'profession of asking,' to use his own expression - attaches a conscious and free challenge, showing himself with his face all illuminated, in an even more declared and pure light."

The Strategy of the Shadow recreates, citing them as in a kind of diary, the signs of an increasingly surprising continuity between the words addressed to the past, facing their complex, arduous, and not infrequently dramatic contemporaneity.

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