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

Bum, in the years between W.W.I and the

advent of fascism, in which he completed his

modernist training, of markedly Futurist

origin), and as a poet and writer in Italian

(Cf. Rime allegre, [Happy Verses], 1928; Vita

paesana...com’era una volta [Country

Life...How It Used to Be], 1935).

Trofa’s inspiration, consolidated by a vast

cultural background, nourished by the most

vital lymphs of Twentieth Century poetics

(D’Annunzio, Pascoli, the Crepuscolari, the

Futurists), follows two different paths: an

ironic, desecrating, mocking consideration of

certain aspects and figures of reality, and a

troubled, painful, at time dejected existential

vicissitude, modernly perceived and

modernly rendered, in a language absolutely

new, free of rhetorical frills, and intent

above all on capturing and rendering the