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
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accursed poets'', he committed suicide in 1987 aged 35.
Born in
Maglie
Maglie (Salentino: ; Griko: , translit. ; la, Mallae) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-east Italy.
History
The Maglie area was settled as early as the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age, and before ...
, province of
Lecce, into a family of florists, Toma attended
high school
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, but he would not continue his studies, even though he kept researching intensely the poets he loved. During his lifetime he published six collections of poems, from 1970 to 1983.
His fame was enhanced nationally by the publication of a collection of his poems, ''Canzoniere della morte ("Canzoniere of Death")'' (
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, 1999).
In 2005, Italian film director Elio Scarciglia made a documentary movie on Salvatore Toma, inclusive of testimonies and titled ''The Forest of Words.''
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"Il bosco della parole"
Accessed 18 February 2012
Bibliography
* ''Poesie (Prime rondini)'' (Poems (First Swallows)),
Rome
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(1970)
* ''Ad esempio una vacanza'' (For instance, a vacation), Rome (1972)
* ''Poesie scelte'' (Selected Poems),
Catanzaro
Catanzaro (, or ; scn, label= Catanzarese, Catanzaru ; , or , ''Katastaríoi Lokrói''; ; la, Catacium), also known as the "City of the two Seas", is an Italian city of 86,183 inhabitants (2020), the capital of the Calabria region and of its p ...
(1977)
* ''Un anno in sospeso'' (A Year in Suspension),
Poggibonsi
Poggibonsi is a town in the province of Siena, Tuscany, central Italy. It is located on the river Elsa and is the main centre of the Valdelsa Valley.
History
The area around Poggibonsi was already settled in the Neolithic age, although the firs ...
(1979)
* ''Ancora un anno'' (Another Year, Yet), Cavallino di
Lecce (1981)
* ''Forse ci siamo'',
Lecce (1983)
* ''Per Salvatore Toma, poeta in esilio'' (For Salvatore Toma, Poet in Exile), Maglie (1997)
* ''Canzoniere della morte'' (Canzoniere of Death),
Milan
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(1999)
Notes
External links
Article on Salvatore TomaThe minstrel of death on Scarciglia's Website.
Italian male poets
Poètes maudits
1951 births
1987 suicides
1987 deaths
20th-century Italian poets
20th-century Italian male writers
Suicides in Italy
People from Maglie
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