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

posthumously in 1967 in Melfi, bearing the

title A calata del sole. “The themes are the

most common in dialect poetry, memory,

folklore, sketches” (Nigro, in Lotierzo-Nigro,

1981). In the dialect of Rionero in Vulture

were published, in 1977, the realistic poems

of Michele Granata, edited by Enzo

Cervellino (Nigro, 1981). A similar reprint of

the poems of Antonio Cautela of Melfi, with

the title La sarcinedda mia [My Bundle of

Wood], came out in 1977 (Civitavecchia,

Tipografia Lucana) (Nigro, 1981). From

Carmine Cassese’s (born in Rionero in 1915,

self-taught, blacksmith) unpublished poems

Nigro presented some of I cunt r

mammagrann [Grandmother’s tales]. Nigro

indicates the various myths that

accompanied Cassese in his creativity: M.

Granata’s dialect poetry, the epic-fabulous