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

with some of our comments (well aware that

we will wrong many, for reasons of space):

they are Turi Lima, in the Etna area;

Salvatore Di Marco, Alfio Inserra, Giuseppe

Giovanni Battaglia in the Palermo area, and

Nino De Vita in the Trapani area.

Turi Lima, author of Sicilia celu e terra

[Sicily Sky and Earth] (1925), a poet with a

strong commitment to Sicilian culture, aims

at unmasking, in verses which are very

modern, fluid and vibrant, the mystifications

that weigh upon the history of Sicily, and at

raising his cry of love and sorrow for the

island tormented and thirsting for justice,

without rhetoric or victimization.

Salvatore Di Marco (1932), in his Giornale

di poesia siciliana [Journal of Sicilian Poetry],

discusses with dedication and competence

the problems of dialect literature and, with