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

BENVENUTO LOBINA

Born in Villanova Tulo (Cagliari) in 1914,

at first a municipal and post office employee

in Cagliari, later a post office clerk in Sassari,

self-taught, Benvenuto Lobina spent his

childhood among farmers and shepherds (as

he himself has often acknowledged), but

from 1933 contributing to several journals

and in particular to the Sardinian review

S’Ischiglia. He has published only only one

book of poetry: Terra disisperada terra [Land

Desperate Land] with Jaca Books (Milan,

1974) and a novel ─ Po Cantu Biddanoa

(Cagliari, 1987).

Author of a single book of verse, Terra

disperata terra ─ due also to the difficulty of

publishing texts of dialect poetry here and

elsewhere ─ Benvenuto Lobina expresses