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

Lived Here], Rome: Mancosu, 1993 (a refined

as well as painful and lucid testimonial on

the difficult life of an intellectual in the

South).

A bourgeois who challenges his own

class, Riviello exalts Utopia as a charge, not

an ideology. His poetry deals with global

satire, demythification of idols, authoritarian

schemes, social rituals, one-upmanship in

mass society.

The Tuscan Franco Manescalchi wrote in

1982: “Riviello is, after Scotellaro, the

greatest poet of the fourth generation. The

one who in the Sixties animated the literary

scene with his Nuova Libreria, without

succeeding, however, in turning it into a

nation-wide project. The arrival in Rome, in

a moment in which Basilicata was

discovering progressive impulses,

determined in Riviello an ideological and