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

suggestions. Zanazzo carefully avoids

dwelling on whatever he feels to be

extraneous and above all avoids attracting

the reader’s attention with recurrent

exclamations: he tempers the subjects in a

warm, goodnatured mimicry of spoken

speech until he touches the chords of

recitative which, unlike the one exhibited

and chosen by Pascarella and Trilussa, in

Zanazzo is inherent to poetry, as an attitude

that is beyond the scope of true recitation,

but gives it substance with words and

images.

At this point one should broach the

particular question of the relationship

existing among dialect poets of the same

linguistic area and not between dialect poets

and poets writing in Italian; maybe up to

Marini, to limit ourselves to Rome, the

affiliations had taken place almost