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

of Dante; Italian Poets of the Renaissance; From

Marino to Marinetti; Leopardi’s Canti; Dante’s

Lyric Poems, and Pulci’s Morgante Maggiore.

Tusiani’s dialect work consists of four

volumes: Làcreme e sciure [Tears and

Flowers], prefaced by T. Nardella: Foggia,

Cappetta, 1955; Tìreca tàreca, edited by A.

Motta, T. Nardella and C. Siani: San Marco

in Lamis, Quaderni del Sud, 1978; Bronx,

America: Manduria, Lacaita, 1991; Annemale

parlante [Talking Animals]: San Marco in

Lamis, Quaderni del Sud, 1994.

On the dialect production see : T.

Nardella, preface to Làcreme e sciure; S.

D’Amaro, in La parola del popolo, Chicago,

July 1978; L. Bonaffini, “La poesia dialettale

di Joseph Tusiani”, in Joseph Tusiani: Poet

Translator Humanist / An International

Homage; C. Siani, Microletteratura: San Marco