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Malidittu la lingua / Damned Language

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I bought this title because I wanted hear a Sicilian dialect (in this case trapanesi) in longer extracts than those
in grammars and philological text books. For this purpose the book is extremely useful. Professor Cipolla's
translation is skilful. The book also provides an insight into the mixture of pride in being American and
insight into the intense nostalgia for the region of birth that characterises all emigrants - although I
suppose this is nowadays less intense with cheap air travel and increased prosperity in Sicily, I don't think a literary evaluation of the poems would be of anthing other than pretentious.

Vincenzo Ancona is my grandpa's brother. I used to call him zio. he used to write poetry for me to read at the club. he was a great writer. Listen to his words in the poetry, so real and nice.