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

edited, with Raffaele Nigro, Poeti di Basilicata

[Poets of Basilicata] (enlarged edition 1993)

and the literary essay La parola e i frantumi

[The Word and the Fragments], Forlì: Forum,

1982.

From 1980 to 1993 he published ten

historical and anthropological essays,

devoted to folkloric positivism and to

community studies (Spinosa, Marsicove-tere,

S. Martino d’Agri, Marsiconuovo, S.

Cipriano d’Aversa).

Besides Russell, psychoanalysis and

Marx, he has studied Ernesto De Martino,

Gabriele de Rosa and Giuseppe Galasso.

Among his favorite poets are Baudelaire,

Eliot, Pavese, Giudici, Zanzotto, Sinisgalli

and Pierro.

Maniscalchi has written about him: “He

is one of the upcoming figures of the new

generation for the precision of his writing