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

Milan, Garzanti, 1990, which collects his

Latin poems written from 1980 and 1982.

Poems that attempt, in a harmonically

contemporary way, to follow unusual

linguistic paths and test the extent to which

the language of the Romans can find (not

find) an extraordinary poetic possibility;

poems that add to the sound waves of the

past (the past filled with exceptional results)

the waves of a present ready to accept, to

deflagrate and fall in love, those suggestions

that have become an indispensable

patrimony. Sovente succeeds, I would say

miraculously, in taking a journey within

paths saturated with meaning and consent,

and yet what he translates into his world is

never a remnant or residue, but something

luminous and original which is grafted onto

life and enriches it with new meanings. It

would suffice to pause on the poems XVV