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

(Marcin) #1

his relatively less developed native region in


a world dominated by mass communication


and extremely rapid changes at all levels of


the social spectrum. His political


commitment, variously manifested both in


his literary production and in his activity as


a journalist and lecturer, exhibits manifold


components, variously articulated and


complex, which gravitate around a single


original emotional core: the attachment to


his land and the need, anthropological in


nature, to bear witness to a culture which,


while in strong regression with respect to


the dominant culture, is a conveyer of values


whose horizon is vaster than the historical


moment of crisis, both in depth, that is


rooted in the human psyche and therefore


metahistorical, and in extension, in their


transnational and transclassist aspect.


Therefore the use of dialect in the poems of

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