Libero De Libero belongs to the generation of Italian poets who started to publish in the 1930s, the period of the second wave of hermetic writers. The language and style of hermeticism evolved around the complex, sophisticated, obscure, often abstract, and highly subjective images derived from strong personal emotions or the poets' perception of reality. The poets felt alienated from society and history, and found refuge in the search to discover new modes of expression. Poetic language was no longer a means of simple communication, a link between the poet and the reader, but rather an entity in itself, the main function of which was to try to express the inexpressible and to create new images estranged from reality. Historicity was neglected; both present and future were doubted. The past, the preferred time--with its memories, absences, and lost loves--and a hedonistic merging with a nature that consoles and...