Work
His poems, written in the Grado dialect of Venetian, are about the daily life and simple landscapes of his native land. He used the "lingua franca" that the merchants of the city used for his writings. He was influenced by Hölderlin and Heine. Religious thematics occur somethimes in his work. Andrea Zanzotto and Pier Paolo Pasolini had some difficulties with the existence of religious thematics in Marins work In 1970 the poet decides to publish all the poems written at that time in one volume, which, significantly for his sentimental attachment to his land will be titled Songs from the Island.His output in the 70s gains him the attention of Italian audiences. He is now obligated to write in Italian, so that everybody in Italian can understand him. Despite this he only wrote one book in Italian called "Acquamarina" in 1973 In 1985 he said that publishers where reluctant to publish even a selection of his poetry.
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