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

and maybe the figure in whom the problem

of the relationship language/dialect,

cultured poetry/primitive-popular poetry is

posed first and foremost in more “reasoned”

terms, more peremptorily “ideological” and

existential, and then in technical terms, as

the instruments of his craft are developed

and rigorously realized.

The reasons, then, for his writing

“dialect” poetry ─ closely related to a deep

awareness of the lack of connotation in the

official literary language and of the

“deviations” of the massmedia society ─ are

certainly to be found, in my opinion, in the

field of memory/childhood, but also and

above all in the sociological and

anthropological dimension of an area of

Southern Italy, the region of Molise, to

which he bears witness and of which he is an

original, open-minded and well-informed