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

social rhetoric of the time, hermetic but

communicable, extremely personal, remains

one of the highest voices of the last decades.

Six issues of Ariu di Sicily came out as a

supplement; a seventh one came out as a

“one-time” issue on October 31, 1954, and it

concluded this other interesting literary

experience. During the Sixties other worthy

poets followed that line: Gaetano

Cannizzaro, Salvatore Consiglio, Nino

Tesoriere, Santo Calì.

If Buttitta had inserted here and there

dialectized morphemes of the Italian

linguistic code, with the intention of making

his texts more accessible extra moenia, Santo

Calì (1918-1972), from Linguaglossa on the

side of Mt. Etna, seems motivated by the

intent of making, apparently at least, his

language more cryptic: not for elitist reasons,

but rather to bring it closer and closer to the