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

As a narrator he contributed for some

time to the review Botteghe Oscure, edited by

Giorgio Bassani, and, immediately after

W.W. II, to the Sardinian review Riscossa.

His poems in the Sardinian dialect were

regarded “stimulating reading” by Pier

Paolo Pasolini, who considered a small

masterpiece the poem “Ammentos de istìu”

[Summer Memories], published by the

writer Salvatore Cambosu in the Sardinian

review S’ischiglia. His poetry attracted the

interest of Giuseppe Dessì and Oreste Macrì,

and later of Gianfranco Folena from the

University of Padua, who is responsible for

publishing some of them in the 2nd volume

of the anthology of dialect poets Le parole di

legno [Wooden Words] (Mondadori, Milan

1984). His poem “Chelos de attunzu”

[Autumn Skies], received an award at a