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

imposed by its utilization with the overall

demands of neodialect, reveals all the

potential resources of an instrument which

maybe has been definitely rediscov¬ered.

The neodialect poetic challenge in the

South, therefore, today seems at work

simultaneously on two fronts: of language

and content. With a process that variously

affects, as it can be verified in the respective

paths, all the regions or all the varieties of

“idioms” (those already having a stratified

literary marginality as well as those that

have remained tied longer to a stage of

virginity left untouched by enterprising

agents). In either case, the risk of a narrowly

mimetic recovery of slanginess seems to

have been definitively set aside, in favor of

an action capable of adapting the word

made flexible to the diverse demands of

poetic expression, signification included.