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

Italian.” All this takes place after “[...] an

early critical-analytical phase, especially in

the essay on Albino Pierro (La poesia di

Albino Pierro, Rome: Il Nuovo Cracas, 1965),

where Jovine’s stance, conciliatory between

Christian and Communist thought, and

between idealism and Marxism, aims at a

necessary convergence of historical and

literary phenomena.”

Finally, beyond Bonaffini’s erudite

considerations, I would like to make one

concept clear, with regards to Jovine creative

wordplay, whether or not dependent on A.

Pierro’s “dramatic” or “ritualistic” models,

or on the notion, never gelid or aseptic, of

the hardships of southern society, which is

historical, and I would say even

metaphysical, that is, fatalistic. Even his

“memorial” poems, despite their solar

display of images, almost always afford an