Remoteness - Juliosavi.it

and necessary form, whose delicate sensuality finds an echo inour own inner, physical and metaphysical, melody.The poetical vein does not flow from any emphasis, but fromthe awareness of, and a preference for, the essential at the expenseof the superfluous. This pursuit of conciseness also may be recognizedin the choice of the titles of both the single poems and thechapters. To read, in the table of contents, the list of titles, willsuffice for us to have an overview of the poetical space of thecollection, and to be touched by, and vibrate with, the author.While combining conciseness and simplicity, Julio Saviavoids the stumbling-block in the way of certain poets, who bycontinually abbreviating become hermetic and obscure, uncaringof their readers, who still are the recipients of their poems.Nobility and aestheticIn poetry, if you want to give an impression of simplicity, youshould be endued with taste and an inborn disposition. The authorneither accumulates nor superimposes the devices of his art, hesimply highlights the precious and precise sentence in an unvarnishedcontext, like a Japanese calligrapher who uses a whitesheet to pen his haiku upon it.Julio Savi does not embellish, he clothes. The oppositionbetween the perceived feeling, which ‘swells, overflows andeverywhere floods,’ and the skill of the measured expressioncontributes to the elegance of this work and produces a subtlepleasure. While the poet unveils himself, opens his heart, whilehis soul shows herself naked, his poetry remains faultlesslydressed in decency and modesty. Nothing extreme in his language,nothing trivial, blasphemous, vulgar or prosaically banal.With the exception of a few baroque and flowery scenes–aproof of a remarkable descriptive attitude–the dominant featurexiv