Crito Di Volta is the astonishing prophecy of a turn in our direction, from present-day triviality and self-contempt to a new life of imaginative joy and the superb energy of peace, the one true energy. Marc di Saverio has somehow brought forth a culture-creating epic which at the same time is the imaginative biography of the suffering outcast of our time, of his family, his loved ones, and the world he loves, and also of what threatens these loves: our blind yet wilful self-defeat. A prophecy, an epic, but also a novel in verse (and prose! and pictures!), a gallery of portraits, a fountain of images. A powerful unity of purpose within a harmonized kaleidoscope of new forms, both free and structured. A completely original mastery of the art of poetry. A work of genius.

Few are the poets who succeed in changing our perception of reality with their pansophy. Marc Di Saverio is one such poet. In his epic Crito di Volta, he has penned a work of unparalleled intellectual depth and poetic intensity, spanning the gamut of literature, philosophy, theology and science. Praised for its authentic poetic voice, Crito di Voltadefies tradition, all the while encompassing it.

A hugely important and insightful work—an epic of our time, that has astute social import, as well as so much raw passion and emotion.

On every page of Crito Di Volta, Marc di Saverio stands in the everlasting emergency present and sings with deep, authentic intensity and poetic force “the melody-lines of people’s veins”—and in so doing offers up an electrical, irrefutable masterpiece.

Exasperation, admiration, and intense curiosity–I ran the gamut from the initial onslaught of simile to a few lines later when I marveled over Di Saverio’s masterful wielding of poetic device to draw a subtle but crucial line between himself, the writer and Di Volta, the protagonist. One is always in control. The other, not so much. Both are compelling.