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

as the heart’s reasons, with the problems of

experience and knowledge.” It seems clear

to me that now the famous wide road is

open for Marè, primarily because he knows

how to interpret his time by becoming even

a paradox, as Giovanni Tesio reminds us, of

Kraus or maybe, as I would say, of Thomas

Bernhardt?

Mauro Marè died in 1993.

He has published: Ossi di pèrsica, Rome:

IEPI, 1977; Cicci de Sèllero, Rome: Edizioni

Cias, 1979; Er mantello e la rota, Rome:

Palombi, 1982; Sìllabe e stelle, Rome:

Ellemme, 1986; Verso novunque, Rome:

Edizione Grafica dei Greci, 1988; Controcore,

Udine: Campanotto, 1992.

Criticism: M. Lunetta, introduction to

Sillabe e stelle, Rome 1986; G. Spagnoletti,

“Nota alle poesie inedite di Mauro Marè,” in