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

tried to reclaim a whole lost civilization, that

zappadorina [peasant] civilization, indeed

dialectal, with a type of poetry that perhaps

also meant an extreme, desperate rappel à

l’ordre, and successfully refining and

modulating the dialect of Sassari with subtle

grace and spirited intensity. His poetry is

tinged with heartrending longing for

something that the poet perceives as being

irremediably lost or elusive, and his poetic

word is the attempt to erect a small

monument to a small rural world already

infested with nettles and concrete.

Everything with a sense of acute, restless

morality.

But there are those who have used

dialect has a true autonomous language,

endowed with a force and dignity equal to

that of the Italian language (like almost all

Sardinian dialect poets), even having fun