Cucuzziello, called “the Biscegliese,” symbol
of the submissive and improvident Apulian,
eternally jeered for his provincial spirit. The
region has been able to gain places on the
linguistic keyboard of stylistic deviations
and innovations: which means being able to
create the future of literature even with
dialect.
ANTHOLOGIES AND DICTIONARIES
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1962; new anastatic edition, Sala Bolognese, 1992.
Cento e passa poeti dialettali, edited by T. Giuttari e L.
Grande, Milan 1973.
Oltre Eboli: la poesia, edited by A. Motta, Manduria 1979.
Poeti della Puglia, edited by R. Nigro and D. Giancane,
Forlì 1979.
La poesia in Puglia, edited by D. Giancane and M. I. De
Santis, Forlì 1994.
Dizionario dei dialetti pugliesi, edited by G. Colasuonno,
Bari 1992.
Le parole dell memoria. Antologia della poesia dialettale della
Daunia, with an essay by G. De Matteis, Lucera, CRSEC