Between the search for the meaning of love and the eternal disillusionment of discontented days: “What poets think about”

What do poets think of the slow landing of night on their heads, what do they think of melancholy wanderers on rags of life. With a confident but still bitter look they feel at the center of the world and struggle with solitary thoughts, the lost faces of the girls, in total disinterest in the world next door.

Here the entire human journey passes in an instant through the head of the poet, who lives to portray everything and tries to gain comfort for himself and others. “What can poets write to comfort lonely and gloomy men, what remains in the hands of poets if not illusory pages of free verses. What do poets think when all the lines have been written and nothing changes under this sky.”

These are the underlying questions that run through the new collection of poems by the journalist and poet Francesco Certo, entitled What poets think about (ed. Pan di Lettere, Granelli di luce series, 144 pages, price 15 euros).

“Looking out the window onto the world, the poet looks at the things of life with the idea of ​​making them a miracle of beauty“. This is his obsession during his existence, crossed and lived with words bent and overturned, restless and dark, playful and irascible. Not everything flows naturally with lightness and ease, the poet is in fact constantly on the edge of torments and small, great joys, between the search for the meaning of love (explained with the imagination of the woman’s longed-for body) and the eternal disillusionment of discontented days, won by the overbearing victory of loneliness, reassuring in its own way. inside secret rooms” to move the air with their strength. The author writes with incurable optimism: “I take them by the hand, turning them inside my dreams”. Yet there are always many questions from the soul. “What do false prayers, false promises, and false solicitude look like? What do false flattery, false poems, and false forms of love look like.” On a journey where the destination was unknown, at the end of the journey “the words crossed faces and smiles, lines and tears, humanity and haughtiness. At the end of the journey the words, without stopping flying, reached their destination”. And this even though the “stormy skies do not give discounts and mercilessly observe the human misfortune”.

What poets think will soon be available on the Pan di Lettere website, on the main online stores and can be ordered in physical bookstores.