Crito Di Volta: an epic [Paperback]

"Crito di Voltais the astonishing prophecy of a turn in our direction, from present-day triviality and self-contempt to a new life of imaginative joy and the superb energy of peace, the one true energy. “We must wake soon, or sleep unto our deaths,” the poem cries. And elsewhere, it sings the cure, “It is harder for the unloved to love, so let us love the unloved the most...” Marc di Saverio has somehow brought forth a culture-creating epic which at the same time is the imaginative biography of the suffering outcast of our time, of his family, his loved ones, and the world he loves, and also of what threatens these loves: our blind yet willful self-defeat. A prophecy, an epic, but also a novel in verse (and prose! and pictures!), a gallery of portraits, a fountain of images. A powerful unity of purpose within a harmonized kaleidoscope of new forms, both free and structured.Crito Di Voltais a work of genius, a completely original mastery of the art of poetry. Perhaps Di Saverio’s poem is most of all a white-hot fusing of love and anger, tenderness and brutal honesty, realism and hope, analytical insight and soaring vision. Or perhaps above all,Crito di Voltais a treasure-house of beauty: “And her vermilion hair, / curved along her forehead like an ancient sword, / quavered.” Or perhaps above all it is a quest and achievement of love on every paglãÈ