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

Poidomani (Carrube e cavalieri [Horse Bread

and Gentlemen], 1954) or Salvatore Spinelli

(Il mondo giovine [The Young World], 1958).

If this can happen for narrative and

poetry in italian, one can easily assess the

extent of the phenomenon with respect to

the poetry in dialect, due to the limited

circulation of the texts, more likely to be

excluded from “the channels of national

publishing and scattered among small

publishers, if not local printers.”^11 In his

History of Sicily, Ganci Battaglia^12 underlined

the need to save the poetic works, which had

remained unpublished, of Saru Cannavò,

from Aci Platani, who died in 1960. Recently,

Domenico Ferraro has edited the complete

published texts of Francesco Paolo

Polizzano, from Prizzi (1857-1935), with the

addition of some unpublished ones.^13 A poet