Salvatore Toma

Salvatore Toma
Born (1951-05-11)11 May 1951
Maglie, Apulia, Italy
Died 17 March 1987(1987-03-17) (aged 35)
Maglie, Apulia
Occupation Poet
Genre free verse
Literary movement Poète maudit

Salvatore Toma (11 May 1951 – 17 March 1987) was an Italian poet, born in the Southern Italian region of Apulia. A visionary and passionate poet, he delved deeply into the meaning of love and death, while searching within man and nature the connection with universal consciousness. A restless soul, part of the so-called wave of the Italian accursed poets, he committed suicide in 1987 aged 35.[1]

Born in Maglie, province of Lecce, into a family of florists, Toma attended high school, but he would not continue his studies, even though he kept researching intensely the poets he loved.[2] During his lifetime he published six collections of poems, from 1970 to 1983.[3]

His fame was enhanced nationally by the publication of a collection of his poems, Canzoniere della morte ("Canzoniere of Death") (Einaudi, 1999).[4]

In 2005, Italian film director Elio Scarciglia made a documentary movie on Salvatore Toma, inclusive of testimonies and titled The Forest of Words.[5]

Bibliography

Notes

  1. Maria Corti, Canzoniere della morte, Milan:Einaudi (1999), Introd., pp.vi-vi. See also Biography, on Vialetrastevere. Accessed 18 February 2012
  2. Cf. Biography, on Vialetrastevere. Accessed 18 February 2012
  3. Maria Corti, Ibid., pp.vii-xi.
  4. S. Toma, Canzoniere della morte, Milan:Einaudi (1999).
  5. Cf. "Il bosco della parole". Accessed 18 February 2012


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