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

GIOSE RIMANELLI

Giose Rimanelli was born in Casacalenda

in 1926 and has been living in the United

States for the past thirty years, where he has

taught in several universi-ties: Yale, Los

Angeles, Albany. Having become known as

one the most interesting young Italian

writers of the Fifties with the publication of

novels such as Tiro al piccione [The Day of the

Lion], Milan 1953, 2nd edition Turin, 1991;

Peccato originale [Original Sin], Milan 1954;

Biglietto di terza [Third-class Ticket], Milan

1958; Una posizione sociale [A Social Position],

Florence 1959; he has contributed regularly

to periodicals and journals, with an

occasional foray into cinema as a

screenwriter. His non-conformism,

maladjust-ment and lack of caution with