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

almost “idealizing”^3. In reality, Curcio’s

cultured background, which has nonetheless

found in dialect a congenial and varied

expressive agent, prompts the poet to

experiment with a series of stanzaic and

metrical combina-tions suited to the

representation of a human world

anthropologically fixed in a regional setting,

but shaken by the dialogic forces of

alternative models found in the cultural

reality of the nation. With the consequent

necessity to revise or enrich the linguistic

code itself, but with the inevitable tensions

to go beyond the typology of living dialect

speech, which seems to reduce the

ideological violence of the message,

determining an apparent regression towards

a descriptive or sentimental Pascoli, and

therefore away from the popular and

towards the subjective. In deciphering his