Nicola D'Ugo
What is the point today to pray? Just to say, as Enzo Bianchi, editor of the book, that "prayer is primarily a human phenomenon" and "for this very surprising that even today the fact that they pray will inspire many suspects, because they may be interested in prayer to the point elevate a status of "genre" literature? Is it not a "fact" essentially human even say bad words, cursing, slander, defame, vilify? And, again, is not essentially invented human major destructive devices that have marked the history of this century?
The relationship between poetry and prayer, felt by Enzo Bianchi in his brief introduction, it moves from the distinction between magic and prayer, to the exercise power through the Word and the recognition that "... instead of prayer in all its forms expresses the non-availability of existence, its not be immediately usable by man, says that life is the presence of an Other. " But a fine expert of biblical texts, the Canadian Northrop Frye, indicated just in the differentiation between poetry and magic, through the character of the poet between the universe and the other men.
What is lacking in most of these prayer-poems is the opening, the aperture to another that is not the Other, to the reader, who is an obsolete rhetoric in a large number of these compositions, many of which, since the work of poetry, are being poorly translated. The most convincing of this sort of anthology of prayer monotheistic Christian, Jewish and Muslim sacred texts appear the three religions were founded. Other major points of this collection two hundred and two compositions (dall'atavicità of sacred texts to the present) consist of the most famous poets of the vast literary universe, such as Rainer Maria Rilke, who, mind you, puts you in the role of an intermediary fryeiano, the one who does not pray for himself but for others.
Sorry not to find the most extensive form of prayer, which could have included in the review of the delicate and heartfelt words of "Prayer" by Giorgio Caproni, narrow in thought or rondo from small maze of hope. Then we can feel the lack of Eliot's great opera, from Ash Wednesday to "The Journey of the Magi" and "The cultivation of Christmas trees," sections more closely "kind" of Four Quartets , which is the highest place of the twentieth-century poetry that speaks to the Other and the other, together.
[posted in: Events No X/23, 18 June 1997 , p. 68 . ]
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