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

of the city, of the subject himself, of the

poetic self that comes apart and disintegrates

under the pressing of words...” (Catalano,

1986).

His work appears in the anthologies of G.

Ramella Bagneri (Forum) and Domenico

Cara (Laboratorio delle Arti).

The collection in the dialect of

Marsiconuovo, Revuòte [Inversions],

published in 1993 in the renewed anthology

Poeti di Basilicata, represents the poetic

rendition of social situations, re-read in the

light of human sciences. Dialect fascinates

him for its town-square witticisms (the

varied theater in which, with complicity and

collusion, power plays its role, but at the

same time it is scorned and jeered), the

concise definitions of an action, the

evocative force of a toponym or nickname.

The winding of the Agri river, those wide