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

between dialect and language which has

taken place in many parts of Italy, to the

mutual enrichment of both. Instead, there

has been a history of continued rejection

between the Italian language and Sardinian

dialects (or Sardinian language). Maybe only

in the poetry of Sebastiano Satta, until

recently considered the greatest Sardinian

poet in italian, has dialect given off a few

sparks. For the rest of them the firing pin has

not worked. It might be however interesting

to underline the tie (in certain cases

inevitable, as for the Catalan poetry of

Alghero) between Sardinian dialect poetry

and above all Spanish poetry (especially

Latin-American) to which ours is related

through specific themes as well as through

an affinity of rhythms and timbres. The very

particular Sardinian versification, which had

so struck Pasolini that he came to declare