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

dialect.

On the whole, those years were

harbingers of a singular experience, which

united poets of diverse stature, culture and

social condition who, as noted by Di Marco

(who came in very young, bringing the voice

of Neorealism) they tackled some questions

which they considered decisive for dialect

poetry in Sicily (the function of dialect

poetry, its relationship with society, the

question of dialect and its relationship with

the national language and the vernaculars),

and they were able to grow together, they

made an all-encompassing cultural choice

regarding all the questions (...)^30

In 1954 Pietro Tamburello edited Ariu di

Sicilia, a newsletter that came out as a

supplement to the biweekly review of

dialect poetry Po’ t’’u cuntu, edited by

Giuseppe Denaro. In his “Greeting,”