WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, Alternativa Libertaria/FdCA #22: Make way for Soylent by Rosa Colella - Review by Olmo Losca (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

Looking at the verses of the poet Rosa Colella is always very difficult
gymnastics, since they dig in every direction. There is not just one
direction in understanding them, or at least coming close to
understanding them, but multiple directions: as if it were a path paved
with stones of different sizes, cracked in the corners, marked by time,
wet by torrential rains, affected by events. At first glance, they seem
like simple stones, but in reality they are disruptive figures that
weigh on our anxieties. Rosa Colella is an admirable social poet and in
this term, often misunderstood, there is all her revolutionary strength.
Poems in total free metric, to take on the profound responsibility of
emotional involvement. Like all social poetry, metrics takes on an
extraordinary personal execution: without frills or scholastic
architecture, caged in fixed and didactic schemes. One cannot remain
indifferent to this new anthology by Colella.
Largo al Soylent" is a poetic book that launches into dives of
deconstructing prose, in a succession of pain and drama. Where pain is
torn skin on the paper and drama is a heavy blanket that does not allow
indifference. 71 poems of extraordinary social commitment Where the
collective mixes with solitude, where the force of the rebellious mass
embraces the singularity of the individual; a desperate cry against a
terrifying genocidal system. In every verse we perceive the fragility,
the disillusionment, the immaterial upheaval of the senses, but even the
tension of the cry, the step of the fighter, the fist raised endlessly
as a sign of struggle insusceptible of surrender. And this can only
exist in social poetry. As in the poem "The window on the sky" when he
writes:
Her eyes, almost blind,
they dreamed of courage
to imagine
a new way
almost a window
on the sky.
So the wise old man, she mused
and, feeling a reason within himself
to live and fight
against the crazy built world
to encircle and annihilate
the human suffocated in sadness,
he took a train ticket and left.

Or even in "Contagion and Punishment" where the metric floods the paper
with anger and brings it to a severe awareness:
Bent terribly, in today,
the world, a great slaughterhouse
and madhouse full of boredom,
he has a terrified look
and he finds himself lost in the woods
surrounded by traffic and metal
populated with strange monsters
ready to destroy him
by blows of strange remaining cities
alien and full of cowardice
of the boom years
from roaring tranquility
of the cashmere coat.
The inhuman society in which we are forced to live bites Rosa Colella's
verses and swoops them down until they set on fire with love and anger.
In an outpost refractory to any imposition, pigeonholing, alienation.
I was lucky enough to know Rosa, and on several occasions talk and
therefore discuss struggle poetry; and it is in those moments that I
grasped her poet dimension, her poignant gaze, her implacable conviction
of belonging to the world of the oppressed. Certainly a painful book
but, at the same time, to be held tightly in your hands so as not to
lose hope in another world.

Il Cantiere n. 20 ottobre 2023 ilcantiere@autistici.org

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