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

Jovine’s translations, egregiously carried out,

but betraying a substantial and distinctive

expressionistic, hyperbolic tendency

underpinning all his works, which reinforces

our instinctive and tested evaluation of his

texts: which constitutes a good signpost for

entering the vital core of his creativity, or

rather of his relationship with reality, with

nature, with himself, with others, material

presences or ghosts of memory.

A more or less complete biographical-

professional sketch can be drawn from the

notes written for him by L. Bonaffini:

“Giuseppe Jovine, poet, short story writer,

journalist, as well as literary and social critic,

has emerged [...] as one of the most serious

and committed writers and intellectuals of

the region of Molise. [...] at the heart of his

work is an abiding concern for the social,

economic and political problems confronting