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

and i will die”). The event tends to take on

connotations of infinity in the cyclical

recurrence of experience, which is

individual, but always tends to be affected

by the destiny of man sentenced to an

endless journey of enrichment.

Maffia attests (maybe for a whole

generation, and not only for Calabria) how

poetry can renew starting from itself, from

the point where transparency was still

essential, and peculiar senses were entrusted

to verbal signs. “Permanent education,”

then, according to the title of a collection of

poetry, as an unstoppa-ble process of growth

in history, but also as a maturation of critical

faculty, of selection and judgment that

allows one to approach with confidence the

instrument (the utterable word) that appears

more susceptible to expressiveness.

Closer to this type of linguistic and