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

language for dialect, convinced of the equal

dignity of the various languages with respect

to poetry.

Might this be a way of foreshadowing

the cultures of the second millennium on the

basis of a new awareness that, safeguarding

identities, guarantees man in his essences of

ratio and verbum against planetary

deindividualization, which risks to deprive

nationalities progressively of meaning, as

they had deprived of meaning regional

differences? It is difficult to say.

What the neodialect flowering of recent

years seem to want to reclaim, with the

strength of its suggestions and the insistence

of its practice, is the right to encode semantic

fields individually definable as cultural

choices, apparently deprived of the measure

of virginity they seem to postulate, but in

reality aspiring to become charged with