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

Martial, Horace and Montale, Chi sa se passa

u’ Patraterne [Who Knows If the Almighty

Will Go By], Rome 1992. Necessarily linked

to this work is also the narrative experiment

in Molisan, La “sdrenga”. Racconti popolari

anonimi molisani [The “Scraper.” Anonymous

Molisan Folktales], Campobasso 1989 and

Cento proverbi molisani [One Hundred

Molisan Proverbs], Campobasso 1991.

Among his prose writings one should

mention the book of short stories La luna e la

montagna [The Moon and the Mountain],

Bari, 1972. Jovine has also published a

collection of poetry in Italian, Tra il Biferno e

la Moscòva [Between the Biferno and the

Moscova], Rome 1975.

With Giose Rimanelli, Jovine represents

the outpost, in the current season, of the

evolutionary line of Molisan dialect poetry,