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

unpredictable echo aroused that evening by

Pasolini’s poetry constitutes the profound

reason for writing in dialect.” I cite this

impression and consideration textually to

describe the condition of the Sardinian poet

who swims upstream like a lost salmon in

order to trace back and find that very “inner

resonance” again, that “unpredictable echo”

that for Brevini constitutes the profound

reason for writing in dialect and, for the

Sardinian, the profound reason for his

finding himself again in his natural,

maternal, ancient linguistic habitat, severed

at the roots by the recurrent dominations,

The use of the dialectal linguistic

instrument is for the Sardinian, therefore,

not only a means to swim upstream, to

recreate his history (if history, our history, is

above all the search for our most intimate

word, our most secret, most authentic and