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

informing material is divided into three

parts (Il nascere a questo mondo, L’esistere e

il resistere, Questo mondo e quell’altro), but

with interconnections that make possible an

organic reading. And this despite a certain

diversity in formal structures, due to the fact

that some poems are written in a strict

Raiano dialect, while others in a micro-koiné

of the Peligna Valley, others still in a

regional koiné.

From this one can understand how and

why Giannangeli’s poetry is so unique: in

fact, it is able to demonstrate, with

accomplishments that go well beyond mere

linguistic experimentation, that dialects

lends themselves easily ─ no less than other

expressive forms ─ to the most varied

creations, without losing their essential

connotations, which reflect primarily the

imme¬diacy and incisiveness of the spoken