Sale del ricordo

At once a ‘ceremony of brilliance,’ at once a descent into the place of consciousness where ‘jackals will rage,’ Luca Baldoni’s book comes from afar, configuring a journey of exploration and recognition of oneself and the world, not without difficulties, trials, failures, and new beginnings. The Salt of Remembrance is painful like that sprinkled on wounds, yet luminous and essential; it leads the reader along the most intense stages of a journey toward meaning and dignity, the right to exist, and the affirmation of the body and desire, through adventurous European cities and Mediterranean islands. The rhythmic and stylistic range is broad, capable of contracting into short pieces or relying on longer, reasoned and meditative texts; at the centre, always, is the physicality of the word, the matter of language and that of the body and sex; because ‘poetry is like the art of the archer: // it aims at the heart, pierces your pleasure.’ 

Achille Marazza Award Jury