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

Sardinian poetry contest dedicated to

Giovanni Corona.

Always reluctant to collect his verse in

volume, Pinna remains almost unpublished,

having published so far only a few poems in

reviews and in the aforementioned

anthology.

Mario Pinna writes in the dialect of

Logudoro, which the advocates of a true

Sardinian language would like to see as the

mother tongue of the island. But if there is a

dialect poet who more than anyone else feels

this condition of being dialectal, this

necessity of dialect as the only possible

instrument of expression and evocation of an

archaic, peasant world (thus dialectal), it is

Pinna himself. With these poems of his

scattered only in journals and in some

authoritative anthologies, he seems to prove

right those scholars and critics (like Barberi