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

tradition of the regional sketch) is inserted

intentionally in the political and cultural

context of the time [...]”

The third and final phase of Eugenio

Cirese’s poetic pursuit, also related to the

climate of the new regional autonomy

movements of the post-war period, as well

as to the mood of conscious resistance to the

incipient invasion of cultural massification

with the resulting timely intensification of

anthropological popular tradition studies

(we are in the late 50s), closes with a

research, psychological and formal, aimed at

the most refined, ineffable, quintessential

subjective expressiveness, based, in the

context of the less ephemeral connotative

tension of “modernist” style, on an almost

mystical treatment of the parole, in this case

dialect, which is dilated to absolute

dimensions, in its semantic and