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

phonosymbolic effects.

We again cite, for its precision, Luigi

Biscardi’s exhaustive profile, necessarily

succinct, of the poet Eugenio Cirese:

“Cirese’s transition to a new poetic season is

marked by the existential experience during

the years of the Second World War, by the

poet’s physical separation from his region,

by the recovery after the war, with its

intense, fervent intermingling of cultural

orientations and perspectives, and by a

longing for deprovincialization. Cirese

furnished a few concise but lucid and

convincing insights concerning the radical

renewal of his poetry in reply to questions

by P.P. Pasolini:

Dialect is a language. In order for it to be

a means of poetic expression and transform

itself into literary language and images, it is

necessary that it be possessed totally; that