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

Future.”

To summarize, Luigi A. Trofa is a

singular exponent of the history of Molisan

poetry in dialect, a precious link between old

and new, tradition and innovation, and

fundamentally with a very particular and

noteworthy awareness of the possibilities of

language: in this sense Trofa is closer,

beyond chronological divisions, to today’s

experimental writers ─ such as Rimanelli, for

instance ─ than he is to his contemporaries,

fixed upon a conservative position, in every

sense (intellectual and psychological, as well

as linguistic), perhaps with the exclusion of

Cirese only, who was also, however, very far

from conceiving and realizing certain

“daring” constructs. Enlightening, in this

regard, are once again the words of L.

Fontanella, who in his introductory essay to

Trofa’s poetry cites a few reflections by