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

“neodialect” Tusiani, namely a writer who

uses dialect both as an alternative keyboard

for concurrent and stratified experiences and

as witness to an existential estrangement

redressed by now only by the myth of a

vanished age: the town, the mountain, the

convent, the roads, the ancient crafts, the

minor and minimal figures of the ancestral

“village” are the maternal counterpart of a

life which decided to accept the challenge of

a world radically different, the exact future

of that past.

Criticism: there is a large bibliography on

his multiform production. Besides L.

Petracco Sovran’s monograph, Joseph Tusiani

poeta e traduttore [Joseph Tusiani Poet and

Translator], Perugia: Sigla Tre, 1984, two

miscellaneous studies should be pointed out:

Omaggio a Joseph Tusiani, edited by G.