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Angelo (Monte S. Angelo, Centro Studi
Garganici, 1992). He has edited the series
Incontri for the publisher Boetti.
For Granatiero, unlike Angiuli, there has
been a radical conversion to dialect from the
initial Italian writings. The main trait of the
poet from Mattinata (Foggia) consists, in
fact, in a more piercing need to return to his
mother tongue, to delve deeply into the
humus that nourished his childhood and his
culture. This is also due, perhaps, to the fact
that the author emigrated to Turin and feels
the sorrow for his lost land more keenly. His
becomes therefore a search for harmony, for
psychological and existential well-being, in
order to resist the violence of a levelling
reality.
Delving into his ancient universe,
Granatiero explores every nook, place,
gesture, object. It’s the ancient universe of