The book “Long Poetry!” From Pope Francis

Eugenio Moral – the Vatican city

A look at the impressive room with the wall paintings from the old “Santo Spirito” hospital to understand that there is need and desire for hair. The audience attended, yesterday, March 21, “Live Poetry!” (Edizioni Ares, Milano 2025, 224 pp., 18.50 euros), where Father Antonio Spadaro, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Defense for Culture, Education and Literary Critic, brings together the writings of Pope Francis on the art of poetry. Book, as director of Roman observer The activity supervisor, Andrea Monda, is already highlighting his title, taken from a message from Pope Francis, addressed to Father Spadaro and was martyred in the folder.

Monda said that the title, which is an “explosion” or rather, “is surprised by surprise and hope.” Some university officials were also present among the public, as well as to respond in the first person to the invitation by Francisco in his short message to Father Spadaro: “I love to occupy the chair poetry in our universities.”

Poetry, light in the middle of the dark

In a speech that combines wisdom and warmth, the Cardinal Vigorest Manuel Fernadiz spoke about the place of the poetic word in the life of the Pope and on its own: “I know that in some difficult moments in the life of Bergoglio, poetry was an oasis, a light screaming between darkness. It happened to me.” But he also made clear that it is not Turris Eburnea: “Dependence on poetry does not mean fleeing, or entering a parallel world; this means, however, re -discovering this world itself in a deeper way, and re -discovering it under other repercussions.”

Poetic art has a major role in transmitting knowledge, because “thought needs poetry so that it does not destroy” and “there is content that can only be connected in a poetic way, or without poetry.” Remembering the experience of Francisco as a teacher in literature, which the Pope himself already remembers in his letter to poets, the Cardinal explained the reasons why the ink believes in literature: “Poetry teaches us dialogue with other worlds, to interpret them from the skin and heart, to learn other languages ​​to communicate.”

Poetry that depends on reality

“This book surprised me, because it says what took several decades to understand it from poetry,” Maria Gratia Kallender, the poet and writer who lives every day, admits the experience of the word omnimoda. “Pope Francis talks about the basic centers of hair. Pauller refers to correspondence, and thus to the correspondence of something with something, which is the final secret of the hair.”

Callandron was beaten by materialism, as the bodily in this book was also persuaded that the poetic word can only begin from reality, because it is “the ability to insert the reality of reality, and therefore, in the invisible part.”

The writer stops in the social dimension, in societies that fight together, and thus, “poetic societies”. Another aspect that the nodal poet in the pages of Francisco is a warning of the risk of resignation and the emphasis on the waiting value. In his speech, Kalandron Dante, Giorgio Caboni remembers the idea of ​​nostalgia to indescribable.

Creativity of hope

Since the first interview, three months after Pope Francis chose, Father Spadaro had seen the Pope’s tendency to poetry. In this unavoidable dialogue, the church met as a hospital for campaigns, to the extent that the presentation of “long hair!” In Jerusalem is a special experience of the coordinator. “Reference to poetry is necessary in Francisco, who remembers him, he was martyred with 17 poetry in “Dear Amazon”.

For Father Spadaro, the ink understands that the challenge in the world is in narration, not only in the same things: “Even the phone in Gaza, breathing in the hospital, is a narration, an alternative and different from what we all used to, and it is a strong poetic gesture.”

He adds: “Hope is creative, because a person is born from Humini Lupus patients, but when something becomes that this rule breaks creative, that is, my hair. So mercy, piety, hope are creative gestures in addition to artwork.”

Then the Jesuit quotes the concept of “incomplete thought, open thought” that the Pope loved, which explains the preferred action, is the word “embarrassing”, which is “leaving the edges”, because God’s experience is “always overflowing.” Spadaro also reaches the issue of desire, which is inevitable when talking about poetry: “desire is united”.