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| | Daniela Gioseffi |
 | | De Palchi knows, as his stark poetry demonstrates, that there is no use to a brilliant physicist like Joseph Teller playing beautiful, ordered Bach on the piano, if he engineers the Neutron Bomb—which would leave buildings standing for confiscation after the humans who owned them have been vaporized to death. |
 | | De Palchi’s poetry is not so specific in references in its placement in time, but constitutes a universal, caged and abstracted howl of frustration and uncompromising rebellion against folly. |
 | | De Palchi gives that final, idealistic cry for all of us, swallowed by pragmaticism or apathy, against man’s inhumanity to man. That is what universalizes the poem. |
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