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signifiers well-suited to the representation of

the human landscape of the derelicts and

outcasts of the underclasses, in contrast with

the privileged classes of the powerful.

Essential Bibliography: fr the works, in

addition to those already mentioned, all

published by Fucina Jonica, cf. Le satire,

Catanzaro, 1984; Calabria Immagine, ibid.,

1985; Parole e segno [Words and Sign], ibid.,

1985; Segni della memoria [Signs of

Memory], ibid., 1987; ‘A vertula d’o poeta

[The Poet’s Burden], Ibid., 1991 (with a large

bibliography); L’eremita di Sant’Anna.

Racconti, ibid., 1984; La Catanzaro degli altri

[The Catanzaro of Others], ibid., 1989; and

various books of proverbs.

Criticism: E. Bonea, “La poesia di Achille

Curcio,” in Studi sulla poesia dialettale del

Novecento, edited by L. Tassoni, Catanzaro,

1981 (with essays by M. Cava, F. Del Pino, L.