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

however, interprets better than anyone the

change, the continuity and the synthesis of

what took place approximately in the

Twenties and Thirties until the flourishing of

neodialect poetry, but he interprets even

that spirit of a thousand spirits, that

international Neapolitanness that saw him

as a chansonnier, actor, author, mime,

acrobat, playwright. His poetry, as was said,

is unpredictable, it moves by fits and starts,

in waves, creating at first a feeling of

disorientation. At any rate, there is a

predilection for the spoken word, that seems

to assign to things and emotions an

irreverent, conspiratorial sigh, as if Viviani

were at the same time pupil and teacher,

thief and policeman.

The list of poets becomes longer (even if

the quality of the texts increases on average

with respect to previous decades), but