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

Cosimo Savastano stands out among

Italian and Abruzzi poets for his complete

dedication to the use of dialect: in fact, he is

not a bilingual poet, like almost everyone

else now, unless one were to consider

autonomous creations the Italian

translations that usually accompany his

texts.

Another of Savastano’s distinctive traits

is the fact that he was born, in a way, as an

adult poet, in the sense that with his first

experiences he is already capable of drawing

a very personal itinerarium in poesin. No

wonder then if, in 1968, upon conferring the

National “Lanciano” Price, the Jury (chaired

by Mario Sansoni), recognized his

“considerable personality,” capable of giving

“of himself and his land that magical lyrical

relationship that is the greatest charm of his

compositions.”