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ALBINO PIERRO
Albino Pierro’s (Tursi, 1916-1995) poetic
experience began in September 23, 1959, and
he has been able to place his “fresh idiom” at
the center of international interest, attaining
the nomination for the Nobel Prize. Pierro
knows that dialects are losing ground as
habitual means of communication, and for
this very reason they can become privileged
means of expression. From Rome, his city of
exile, this professor of philosophy has turned
inward to the inner voice of the “paise”
(hometown), whose words, found again in
memory and lacking any kind of literary
tradition, are transformed into an
instrument of a polyphonic poetry, of a
dramatic expressionism based on percussive
rhythms and very dense contradictions.
Prevalent is the myth of the village, of his