marcin
(Marcin)
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Tricarico (1923-1953), one of the most
significant Italian poets of the Neorealstic
period, whose popular elements have been
underlined (cf. Grassi, 1965), but not totally
charted nor reconstructed through lemmas
and concordances.
Even the refined Hermetic poet
Leonardo Sinisgalli from Montemurro (1908-
1981) toyed with dialect, going as far as
collecting a few “poems from Basilicata
selected and transcribed from the
indigenous dialects.” See with what
keenness and stylistic force he presents those
texts: “Basilicata is a land of passage: we
poor natives are the only travelers who
throw out their bags and knapsacks under
the overhangs of these desolate stations.[...]
The people don’t walk, they trudge, they
drag themselves here and there. The great
clamor is made by roosters and jackasses.