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

possibility to communicate his moral

messages in an immediate and direct

manner, through the bitterness that stays

with the reader, who is forced to reflect on

the apparent paradox of the situation in

which a truth is concealed or a doubt

suggested.

On an intermediate plane between

spontaneity of writing and commitment to

structure, stands the more modern poetry of

Achille Cursio (born in 1930). His search

follows two fundamental lines: the first

concerns his posture with respect to the

poetic tradition in dialect of his region,

which places him on a line of continuity

(and development) with Padula’s

Nineteenth-Century compositional models,

and of the more modern ones, indebted to

Pascoli and to Pane; the second derives from

the need to reinvent dialect, which