F. Lanza considers the dialect experiment
a way in which the poet tests his own
expressive potential with an elementary,
“virginal” vocabulary, at the same time
bringing dialect closer to the “cultured
spheres” of European poetry (Expressionism,
Surrealism), in a “surprising fusion.”^3
Criticism: L. Sciascia, Introduction to
Occhi antichi, Caltanissetta-Roma 1957; V.
Clemente in Il Belli, June 1954; A. Corsaro in
Poesia siciliana d’oggi, edited by A. Grienti
and C. Molino, Catania 1958; I. Buttitta, in La
Sciara, March 1965; A. Zaccaria, in La Sicilia,
September 1968; G. Zagarrio, Poesia tra
editoria e anti, Palermo 1971; G. Spagnoletti,
Pref. to L’odore della poesia, Caltanissetta-
Rome: Sciascia 1980; F. Lanza, Poesia e teatro
di Antonino Cremona, Milan 1986.
1G. Spagnoletti, preface to: A. Cremona, L’odore della