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

on poetry in dialect (cf. La letteratura

dialettale molisana, Isernia, 1983); the

exploration of little-known areas of dialect

literature such as the theater (cf. Faralli,

op.cit.); the critical work on the opera omnia

of E. Cirese by A. M. Cirese and on the

unpublished poems of G. Cerri by S.

Martelli; the recent volume Poesia dialettale

del Molise. Testi e critica (edited by Luigi

Bonaffini, Giambattista Faralli, Sebastiano

Martelli, Isernia, 1993); the critical

anthology, also recent, by Mario Gramegna

(Letteratura dialettale molisana. Antologia e

saggi estetici, vol. I, Campobasso, 1993).

At the forefront of Molisan poetry in

dialect we find Giuseppe Jovine (Lu Pavone,

1970 and 1983) and Giose Rimanelli

(Moliseide, 1992), writers with a background

that is rather broad and rich with linguistic