Critique by Prof. Orazio Tanelli of book "Non svanite sogni"

"In elegant typographical design, this second book is a collection of poetry whose theme invokes the reader to meditate both on the past and the present.
The persistence of dream memory weighs upon the semantic dictation that rises from the inexhaustible fountain of the subconscious.
Through dreams, memories become a precious casket in the meanderings of the conscience and in the context of Nature, whose presence is evident in all components of this collection. The presence of the sun in the universe is both cathartic and miraculous at the same time because the star gives life to and illuminates all people and things, lighting the path of the wayfarer that makes his way towards unkown beaches in search of the path of hope and salvation: "In the sun for the sun/I direct my path."
The moon is the pallid friend that keeps watch over our dreams and renders the night less gloomy. From this poetic point of view, the power of silence renders the heartbeat of the night and the whimpers of the baby in the cradle more eloquent, while the rose full of dew sheds tears over the grey land: "The night falls/where the sun is missing".
The sun colors the universe with the flowers of spring and melts the snow on the mountains: "The dawn clears up the tears of the sky".
Above and beyond the lyric elegy, Alfonso Ferrari contemplates contemporary society and he rails against avarice and wealth, expanding the image of the poverty of Christ beyond imaginable horizons, on that bloody cross from which he implores the pardoning of those who do not know that which they do.
And it is then that the snow that melts "makes the rocks cry". In ideological analysis of Good and of Evil, of light and of darkness, of virtue and of vice, the poet condemns haughtiness and ignorance and does not hesitate to define man as "walking shit", a disgusting being composed of worms that later transforms into "stinky ashes".
From here the contrast between dreams and reality, between the historical memory and the atrocities of war.
The poetry of Alfonso Ferrari reappraises the family and tradition in a memorial context in which dream memory is always animated by the power of the sun, which with its light gives life, warmth, and color to men and things.
His poetry is a sequence of landscape images that are connoted by a pictorial and metaphoric language, secure in its artistic expression."

Prof. Orazio Tanelli 2003

Founder & director Rivista culturale di arte e poesia "Il Ponte Italo-Americano" - New Jersey (USA)

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