Toward the end of March 1923, Negri enjoyed a brief holiday in
Sicily and from there she went to the island of Capri, where she
stayed for about a year and wrote I Canti dell'Isola/Songs of the
Island. Her lyrics of Capri, full of sun, blueness and the perfume
of oriental roses, are like a seashell: magical, polyphonic in
their infinite melodiousness. Dedicated to the memory of Cesare
Sarfatti, husband of Negri's best friend and fellow-writer
Margherita Sarfatti, and that of their war-hero son Roberto
Sarfatti, I Canti's poems represent a sort of parenthesis in
Negri's work. They are the result of the blinding light of the
island, the ardor of a holiday both physical and spiritual. In the
words of one critic, they embody "the magic of the tangible and the
flashes of invisible reality," and symbolize the poet's hour of
quiet and reflection on her path thus far. Via the impressionistic
sweep of these images, the poet transports us with Capri's
explosion of light and color. Enchanted by pearls, amethyst and
jade, the mythological sea of Ulysses, the unstoppable bleeding of
poppies, climbing purple roses, and the castaways of dreams, the
reader wants to be seduced, if only for a moment, by this world of
the senses. Yet, as if fraught with guilt, through the poet the
human spirit aspires to a higher self. Translated by Maria A
Costantini. First English translation. Dual-language edition.
Introduction, bibliography, map, glossary.
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