marcin
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ACHILLE CURCIO
Achille Curcio was born in Borgia
(Catanzaro) in 1930. A very active poet in
dialect, he has published several collections
of poems. He lives in Catanzaro, where he
taught in a prison for juveniles.
From Lampari (1971), through Hiumara
(1974), until Visioni del Sud (1976), Curcio
constructs his language and his system of
poetics with an eye to the changes taking
place and the modernization necessitated by
social changes, attempting to bring them
into a “grammatical,” prosodic and
rhetorical matrix, capable of signifying the
lyric content, heartfelt, at times even softly
nostalgic, crepuscolari, though ranging over
themes typical of Calabrian dialect poetry:
town life, family bonds, love for the land,