Dialect Poetry of Southern Italy (Italian Poetry in Translation Book 2)

goldsmith shop... In 1906 he emigrated to

America, where he became known as union

agitator. Having returned to Italy (1911), he

continued in his political engagement by

organizing antiwar campaigns. On the

occasion of the colonial war he wrote a

poem, “La Zappa e la Sciabula” [The Hoe

and the Saber] (1911). In 1921 he joined the

Communist party. All his poems have a

strong autobiographical and political

connotation. He died on September 7, 1963.

Creazzo tends to balance, in general,

autobiographical observations (So many

woes in this life. / Since the painful gasp

came out. / I was condemned like currency:

/ my day will never rest!) with the

sociological empiricism of the sketch, always

poised between naturalistic influences and

bitter (at times playful) satire. Through this

path he reaches a dual definition of society,