Blue Maratea | Corrado Calabro'

"Blue Maratea"

by Corrado Calabrò

TIELLE MEDIA
Rome, 2002 pp. 272

Of the sea and other stories ...

Corrado Calabrò wrote, as "no poet since the time of Montale" (Aldo M. Morace), of the "sea as a source of life, a sea as long as and as long as possible feelings" (Claudio Volpi), that "Mediterranean sea" which connects lands with distinct outlines "(Dante Maffia)," sea, desert of restlessness and divinity of fear "(Piero Cimatti).

Calabrò tries a synthesis between scientific and philosophical truth, and poetic discovery and involves us in the pleasure of his research, of his navigation in himself towards the other by himself, he transmits the pleasure of waiting for an imminent revelation.

The scan of his language is the most interesting novelty: in his verse the metric gives the poem the measure of our attention.

Calabrò in his pages (the iconography is essential for its stripping) pursues a lyric and speculative tension, his absolute confession: mental concerts of the feeling of existence, of love, of time, which escape us like the sea.

In 2003, at San Felice Circeo Corrado Calabrò won the International Award "La Cultura del Mare" with "Blu Maratea".

the AUTHOR

Corrado Calabrò was born in Reggio Calabria, on the shores of the Mediterranean.

He has published thirteen books of poetry, from First Waiting (Guanda, 1960) to The Same Risk (Crocetti, 2000).

The complete collection (at the time) of his poems was published by Mondadori in 1992 under the title Rosso d'Alicudi (three editions).

Calabro's poems have been translated into French, English, Spanish, Russian, Romanian, Portuguese, Ukrainian, modern Greek, Hungarian, and Swedish.

One of his lyric works has been released on a compact disk by the record label Ricordi: the vocals are performed by Achille Millo and Riccardo Cucciolla.

He is also the author of the novel Remember to Forget Her (Newton & Compton, 1999), a finalist for the Strega Prize (five editions).

High-ranking state official, he has held various positions such as President of the Section of the Court of Auditors, President of the Regional Administrative Tribunal of Lazio, Chief of Staff to various ministries and governments, and President of the Communications Authority.

In 1997, the University of Mechnikov in Odessa, and in 2000, the West University Din of Timisoara conferred the degree of Doctor honoris causa on Corrado Calabrò for his literary work.

He lives in Rome.

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