marcin
(Marcin)
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autobiography, Molise Molise, Isernia 1979,
then with the Italian poetry of Arcano,
Salerno, 1990, has unavoidably brought him
back to dialect, with a marked preference for
the dialect song (Moliseide, Campobasso
1990; Moliseide, New York 1992 [Trilingual
Edition]).
Criticism: V. Colby, in World Authors,
New York 1985; E. Bedé, in Columbia
Dictionary of Modern European literature, New
York 1980; L. Bonaffini, introduction to
Moliseide, New York 1992; L. Reina, in Il Belli,
n. 5, December 1992; G. Faralli, in Poesia
dialettale del Molise, Isernia 1993.
With Giose Rimanelli’s poetry Molisan
literature in dialect is radically emancipated
from the shackles of that provincial
“peculiarity” inevitably determined by the
history of the region (cf. the Introduction to