marcin
(Marcin)
#1
in order not to get lost again, not to lose
one’s way in the new Babel of languages.
And the dialect of poetry regains its
“primitive” function of naming objects,
places, feelings, a whole civilization of
manners, forms, behaviors: the most
civilized and honest, the most authentic and
freest way to bear witness to an oppositional
presence with respect to that “civilization”
that has turned even language into a place of
widespread pollution.
Therefore, dialect today can, In Sardinia
and elsewhere, be wedded even to ecology.
At any rate, the ever-growing revival of
dialect poetry at every level is not without
significance. In short, for many people (even
distinguished poets in Italian) dialect has
become a siren. “And so” - Spagnoletti and
Vivaldi write (Poesia dialettale dal
Rinascimento a oggi, Garzanti) ─ what fate