"Western culture has turned the figure of the poet upside down, making it functional to a philosophy of absence, of abstraction, of enlightened illumination, of inoffensive presence […] Amongst the people who still know how to listen, the opposite happens. For them poetry is congenital, necessary and connatural, socially indispensable. For them the poet, thanks to the acknowledgment of the community, is invested with a representative function. Through songs, he personifies his people, he tells their mythical and quotidian epopees […] but, above all, he is the living link to the inexpressible, the mystery, the vision […] he is invited to sing only if the community acknowledges his ability to ‘see beyond’ and if he is able to depict this ‘beyond’ […] Nobody can call himself a poet: it is those who listen to him who will nominate him so, who will grant him quality and authority; and they are the same ones who will revoke this title if he is not able to honour it." - Alberto Masala
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:00:39 +0000
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