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

ANTONIO LO TIERZO

Lotierzo, born in Marsiconuovo

(Potenza) the 28th of June 1950, did his

classical studies in the Salesian School of

Taranto and in Sala Consilina and then

graduated in Naples, first in philosophy and

history in 1972 and then in sociology in 1977.

After fifteen years of teaching in secondary

schools, he became a principal in Naples,

where he has been living since 1981. He

edited the review Nodi (1979-85),

contributes to Basilicata (1972-93); Quinta

Generazione (1978-81); Quaderni Vesuviani

(1992-93); Salvo imprevisti and Pensionante de’

Saraceni (1983). In verse he has published: Il

rovescio della pelle [The Reverse of the Skin],

Forum: Forlì, 1977 and Moritoio marginale

[Marginal Dying] (ib., 1979). In 1981 he