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

ANTONINO CREMONA

Antonino Cremona was born December

6, 1931 in Agrigento, where he practices law.

Books of poetry: Occhi antichi [Ancient Eyes],

1957; Il gelsomino [The Jasmine], 1958; Inverno

[Winter], 1954; Provvidenza [Providence],

1977; Samarcanda, 1978; L’odore della poesia

[The Scent of Poetry], 1980. Books of prose:

Agrigento, 1962; Passa un fatto [Passing

Occurrence], 1971. Theater: Miraglia ucciso

[Miraglia Slain], 1985; Sogno di Aldonza

[Aldonza’s Dream], 1989.

It is in the wake of the Gruppo Alessio Di

Giovanni that in 1957 Antonino Cremona

(1931) published in the Quaderni di Galleria of

the Caltanissetta editor Salvatore Sciascia, in

a Girgenti patois, the chapbook of collected

verse Occhi antichi, which in 1980 became