Însemnele materiei

the long version

*Însemnele materiei* or *Insegne della materia* (2013 is a Romanian-Italian bilingual collection of philosophical poetry by Dumitru Găleșanu. The book contains works in which the author combines elements of metaphysics and science, based on a close correlation between spirit and matter, which shed light on an original philosophical thought on the existence and material being of the world. In this book, scientific concepts such as: quarks, bosons, neutrinos and the Higgs field, etc., are constantly used to philosophically and poetically explore the theme of *Being* and the universe, the complex interdependence between infinity and atom, between micro and macro-cosmic energies, guided by a special understanding of the relationships between the physical and psychic coordinates of man. Găleșanian poetry is characterized by a harmony between the need for interiorization and the desire for exteriorization, between human and divine love, he sometimes using the philosophical concept « Time » as an eternal dimension and organic unit of measurement of existence. *Însemnele materiei* is a reference book of the poet, which confirms his authentic philosophy of life, in which he pushes the limits of poetics to reveal the poetry hidden in the apparently arid conceptual constructions. As a result of the author's hyperbolic perception, the boundary between metaphysics and poetry is abolished in some of the works, and philosophical and poetic language overlap. It can also be seen how the poet's natural feelings of love trigger, in turn, the mechanisms of creation, authentic lyrical beauties. In the book's afterword, the critic Octavian Soviany reveals that Dumitru Găleșanu's presence in contemporary literature – clearly devoid of metaphysical appetite – « is surprising and shocking ». According to his opinion, the poet would be « more plausible », between « the physicists and meta-physicists of Miletus or in the agora of Elea », where it is said that Parmenides will have uttered his poem « On Nature ».