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

corrosive poetic language, frequently

engaged in a dialogue with memory and the

unconscious, with the city and the village,

with history and current events. The reality

that traverses Angiuli displays forms that are

unfamiliar and yet in a strange way already

seen, already presaged. Nostalgia,

melancholy, regrets, are abolished: under the

author’s knowing eye there unfolds a

mottled and chaotic landscape, stony and

iridescent. Dialect becomes the conveyor of

dreams, of oneiric fragments, of flashes of

the Other and the Elsewhere. In the

shipwreck of every certainty and every

memory the descent to hell seems the only

way out: “Descend the stairs to the end

etc...”