marcin
(Marcin)
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tried to reclaim a whole lost civilization, that
zappadorina [peasant] civilization, indeed
dialectal, with a type of poetry that perhaps
also meant an extreme, desperate rappel à
l’ordre, and successfully refining and
modulating the dialect of Sassari with subtle
grace and spirited intensity. His poetry is
tinged with heartrending longing for
something that the poet perceives as being
irremediably lost or elusive, and his poetic
word is the attempt to erect a small
monument to a small rural world already
infested with nettles and concrete.
Everything with a sense of acute, restless
morality.
But there are those who have used
dialect has a true autonomous language,
endowed with a force and dignity equal to
that of the Italian language (like almost all
Sardinian dialect poets), even having fun