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

poets in the region. Since his revealing La

parola, l’ulivo, he has brought to light the

historical dimension of an exploited and

subaltern Mezzogiorno. Angiuli, who comes

from a line of farmers, has assimilated the

heritage of tradition, extracting from it a

culture of protest and emancipation,

discovering that the new South could be

born autonomously from its own roots,

avoiding the logic of a mere mimetic

reproduction of imposed models. In the ever

pressing rhythm of alienation, he has been

able to define an identity without

compromises, and a language capable of

generating semantic chains that highlight

the collision between two cultures and the

necessity to integrate them in a conscious

relationship.

This continuous tension has engendered,

more directly in dialect, a playful and