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

graphic materiality, with its phonic

mechanisms, with its syntax and intrinsic

rhythm generates emotions, memories,

sensorial and psychological perceptions,

ghosts of the imagination.

The collection Moliseide by Rimanelli is a

hard and meticulous attempt to capture an

extinct universe through the auscultation of

linguistic signs, following an inverse

procedure: a procedure, that is, that

reestablishes the signified along the lines of

the signifier, through expansion and

autogenesis. This, regardless of any aesthetic

theory, leads us to a “Vichian” reading of

poetry, especially when this poetry, with all

the instruments of an impeccable

troubadoric craftsmanship, utilizes the

primordial phonic articulation of dialect

(maniacally transcribed), made even more

suggestive and oracular by the fact that