Forum, 1986; Bonsai, Palermo: I.L.A. Palma, 1989; Sàgana e
dopo, Ragusa: Cultura Duemila, 1991; La casarca, Palermo:
La Centona, 1992. His works of fiction include: Antimonium
14, Palermo: Quaderni del cormorano, 1967; Come un sogno
incredibile - Ipotesi sul caso Nievo, Pisa: Giardini, 1980; Il
ponte dell’ammi-raglio ed altre narrazioni, Palermo: Thule,
1986; Trittico clandestino, Siracusa: Arnaldo Lombardi,
- His essays include studies of Rosso di San Secondo,
G.E. Nucci, Quasimodo, Luzi, Sciascia, Piccolo, Guidacci.
Since 1984 he has been the editor of the literary review
Arenaria.
TRANSLATORS
Luigi Bonaffini has translated Dino Campana (Orphic
Songs and Other Poems); Mario Luzi (For the Baptism of
Our Fragments); Giose Rimanelli (Moliseide and Alien
Cantica); Giuseppe Jovine (The Scraper and Anony¬mous
Molisan Folk Tales); Achille Serrao (The Crevice); Eugenio
Cirese, Albino Pierro and other dialect poets, and has co-
edited Poesia dialettale del Molise, a trilingual anthology of
poetry in the Molisan dialect. He is a professor of Italian at
Brooklyn College.
Novella Bonaffini has translated poems from the Molisan
dialect for the anthology Dialect Poetry from Molise. Texts
and Criticism. She is a student at the University of Rome.