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

If this has a meaning for all the dialect

poets of Italy, it certainly does so even more

for the dialect poets from Sardinia. Their

severed tongue, severed for centuries, for

millennia, required and requires, with the

attainment of an ever greater awareness,

that very maternal tongue, that tongue that

descended into the depths of time and space,

of history and life, be recovered and made to

sound like new: but where indeed, if not in

the place designated for this, namely poetry?

In answer to a question from Renato

Tucci (Il lettore di provincia, n. 79, Dec. 1990)

Franco Brevini, author of Le parole perdute

[Lost Words], Einaudi, said, as well as

anyone ever could: “I felt in that dialect

pronunciation something familiar,

something that had passed through my

existence. Much later I was to discover that

that very inner resonance, that