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

grandmother, he reinvents the speech of a

remote time identifiable with his own

childhood, and this way everything goes

back into its most natural place, where

saying and communicating were the same

thing, and conversing itself had the flavor of

fables, without betraying the truth of

popular wisdom, mixed with myths and

legends.

The result is, as Spagnoletti has rightly

noted, an “invincible charm,” not only in the

most demanding pages, where his “cosmic

and existential wonder” rise to the surface,

but in our view also in the apparently more

relaxed pages, in which the poet abandons

himself to the narratio, happy yet painful, of

a modern teller of fairy-tales.