marcin
(Marcin)
#1
experience, like other recent ones, it is a
question of redefining the whole scope of
dialect literatures, which can no longer be
considered exclusively in relation to the
greater or lesser degree in which they reflect
the culture of a people, nor be judged on the
extraneous contents of the texts, whether of
protest or anything else. In fact, the effort to
adopt dialect as a language potentially
capable of rising to the rank of instrument
well suited to poetry is becoming
increasingly evident. In order to achieve this
end, it becomes almost indispensable, for the
poet, to assume an attitude of extreme
openness, even when this might entail a sort
of refuge in individual lyricism or the
recovery of models applied differently in
Italian poetry.
Curcio never tries to describe the social
or the political in ideological terms. Beyond