The Lights of Man: [the philosophical lyric poetry]

Titlu original în limba română – Luminile omului: lirica filosofică.

Dumitru Găleșanu shows a great loyalty to his poetic world and art. A sort of profound noosphere dealing with mathematics and metaphysics while everything happens with the aim of a poetic appeal. In other words, Dumitru’s poetics cannot avoid the poetry of science and, at the same time, the science of poetry, as a whole, mutually involved, in search of a new cosmology whose paradigm is constantly revised while the latter acquires or inherits the poetry of complexity of the reality of the world itself. MARCO LUCCHESI

The text begins with a term that represents the keyword of the entire anthology of poems: light that must not be understood as a physical phenomenon, but as a metaphysical principle that gives life and vigor to all things. The light that, as a divine gift, descends upon the world and illuminates the mind and soul of man, igniting the urges of the heart and giving birth to thinking. That is how poetry is born, poetry which is, at the same time, emotion and reason, and has an aversion to any trivial noise as it needs silence to make its voice heard. And the silence listens to this voice that reaches the infinite universe and the ancestral time which is the superhuman kingdom of the God-thought. Some ideas of Dumitru Găleșanu refer to Plato and his philosophy and especially correlate with the Myth of the Cave that is the dark realm of error and ignorance. But subsequently, man frees himself from the chains that hold him captive in that obscure place where only the shadows of reality emerge, and goes out to contemplate the sun, a metaphor of that hyperuranic world where the true reality shines sovereignly, i.e. the ideas, especially the supreme idea, that of Good. Dumitru does not immediately quote Plato, but his master, Socrates, who appears in the second poem of the volume, the poem “Absent in the Agora”, agora being the famous Athenian square where the Greek philosopher would spend his days talking to the young people in a continuous, obsessive search for the concept (i.e. for that thing that is stable and does not change like a flag in the wind). …Together with the teachings of Socrates, Plato and Christ, in the work of our author, there is also a lot of existential philosophy as he warns us about the drama of existence, i.e. about man’s status outside the stability of existence, and about his aspiration to the bright world of Certainty and Universality: which both mean Joy, a Joy that only Philosophy and Poetry can offer. I will conclude this note with the author’s own words, from the last poem of the volume, which seem to me a happy, significant synthesis of his thinking: “On the blue retina/ of infinity/ I’m happily returning,/ my heart always emerging”. The Lights of Man by Dumitru Găleşanu (Vittorio Verducci)

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