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

[Massacre for The Carousel of Flying

Saucers], 1955; Gli isolani terrestri [Terrestrial

Islanders], 1958; Biografia a San Venanzio

[Biography for San Venanzio], 1959; Canzoni

del tempo imperfetto [Songs of the Imperfect

Tense], 1961; Un gettone di esistenza [A Token

of Existence], 1970; Tra pietà e ironia ed

epigrammi [Between Pity and Irony and

Epigrams], 1988.

His dialect poems up to 1979 have been

collected in the volume Lu libbre d’Ottavie

[Ottavio’s Book], Sulmona: Di Cioccio, 1979;

a new Antologia poetica [Poetic Anthology] in

Italian and dialect appeared in Raiano

(L’Aquila) in 1985. In 1989 a new short

collection came out, Arie de la vecchiaie [Air

of Old Age] (Pescara); and in 1994 Litanie per

Maria e altri versi in abruzzese, Udine,

Campanotto Editore.