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

and methodological awareness... (His)

statements on poetics, that also include a

series of contradictions (the social and/or

the formal), contain the model of a

generation that, in the South, has tried to

mediate Sinisgalli’s graphemes with

Scotellaro’s incarnated syntagms...” (1982,

op. cit.).

Catalano has noted: “Significant in him is

the refusal of mythical reparation and the

relative acceptance of a conflictual wave that

overruns the towns, the cultures, the dreams

and signs tied to Basilicata, and plunges

them in a bold linguistic and expressive

research that avoids the usual expectations,

reinventing iconic codes of painful and

confident modernity. They celebrate,

according to Giancarlo Mazza¬curati happy

insight in the afterword, the related deaths

of the old protective certainties: of the town,