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GIOSE RIMANELLI è Professore Emerito di Italiano e di Letteratura Comparata all 'Università di S.U.N.Y a Albany e Ricercatore Associato alla Susquehanna University. É nato il 28 novembre 1926 a Casacalenda (Molise). Raggiunse fama internazionale con alcuni suoi romanzi degli Anni Cinquanta, fra i quali Tiro al piccione (1953) (ristampato da Einaudi, 1991,), Peccato originale (1954), Biglietto di terza (1958), Una posizione sociale (1959). Vanno anche segnalati Graffiti (1977) e Molise Molise (1979). All'attività narrativa ha unito quella della poesia, giornalismo, teatro e critica letteraria. Di particolare interesse sono Il mestiere del furbo (1959), The in Casa Picasso (1961), Lares (1962), Il corno francese (1962), Modern Canadian Stories (1966), Tragica America (1968), Italian Literature: Roots & Branches (1976). I suoi libri di poesia includono Carmina blabla (1967), Monaci d'amore medievali (1967), Poems Make Pictures Pictures Make Poems (1971), Arcano (1990). É musicologo e pittore. GIOSE RIMANELLI is Professor Emeritus of Italian and Comparative Literature at S.U.N.Y. at Albany and Distinguished Research Associate at Susquehanna University. He was born November 28, 1926, in Casacalenda (Molise), Italy. He achieved international fame with some of his novels in the fifties, among which Tiro al piccione (1953) (reprinted by Einaudi, 1991), Peccato originale (1954), Biglietto di terza (1958), Una posizione sociale (1959). Also to be noted are Graffiti (1977) and Molise Molise (1979). To narrative he has added poetry, journalism, theater and literary criticism. Of particular interest are Il mestiere del furbo (1959), The in Casa Picasso (1961), Lares (1962), Il corno francese (1962), Modern Canadian Sto- ries (1966), Tragica America 1968), Italian Literature, Roots & Branches (1976). His books of poetry include Carmina Blabla (1967), Monaci d'amore medievali (1967), Poems Make Pictures Pictures Make Poems (1971), Arcano (1990). He is a musicologist and painter. LUIGI BONAFFINI è nato ad Isernia (Molise) e vive ed insegna negli Stati Uniti. Ha scritto, tra l'altro, su Dino Campana, Eugenio Cirese e Giuseppe Jovine, ed ha tradotto in inglese numerosi poeti italiani e stranieri, tra cui Campana, Luzi e Sereni, e diversi poeti dialettali, quali Pierro, Cirese e Jovine. Di prossima pubblicazione sono una sua antologia di poeti dialettali del Molise e un'antologia di poeti dialettali dell'Italia Meridionale. LUIGI BONAFFINI was born in Isernia (Italy) and lives and teaches in the United States. He has written on Dino Campana, Eugenio Cirese and Giuseppe Jovine among others, and has translated into English numerous Italian and foreign poets, among whom Campana, Luzi and Sereni, and several dialect poets, such as Pierro, Cirese and Jovine. Forthcoming are an anthology of dialect poets from Molise and an anthology of dialect poets from Southern Italy. Giose Rimanelli Moliseide Traduzione inglese di Luigi Bonaffini English translation by Luigi Bonaffini (c) Copyright 1991 by Giose Rimanelli and Luigi Bonaffini Questo lavoro è dedicato con umiltà e amore ai melici indimenticabili del paese mio: Giovanni Cerri Adolfo Polisena Silvio Di Lalla e a Benito Faraone che ha dato musica ed anima a molte di queste liriche amorose This work is dedicated with humbleness and love to the unforgettable melics of my hometown: Giovanni Cerri Adolfo Polisena Silvio Di Lalla and to Benito Faraone who has given music and soul to many of these love lyrics 'N ze pò pèrlà de munne navècate s'è perdut'a lénghe di patri tije. Sié sembe libbre sule s'è sèlvate core e quèsciénze du pèjése tije. Non si può parlare di mondo navigato se hai perduto la lingua dei padri tuoi. Sei sempre libero solo se hai salvato cuore e coscienza del paese tuo. You cannot speak of the world you've sailed if you have lost the language of your fathers. You'll always be free only if you have saved the heart and conscience of your place of birth. VII CONTENTS Prefazione di Giose Rimanelli ......................................................................... XVI Preface by Giose Rimanelli ............................................................................ XVII Introduzione di Luigi Bonaffini ..................................................................... XXII Introduction by Luigi Bonaffini ....................................................................XXIII 1. A vije du Molise .................................................................................... 2 The Road to Molise ............................................................................... 3 2. Rita......................................................................................................... 4 Rita......................................................................................................... 5 3. Ué, Termoli! .......................................................................................... 6 Ehi, Termoli! .......................................................................................... 7 4. Molise mio ............................................................................................. 8 My Molise .............................................................................................. 9 5. Me so' ddermute ................................................................................... 10 I Fell Asleep ......................................................................................... 11 6. A móre ................................................................................................. 14 Love ..................................................................................................... 15 7. Dduj mute ............................................................................................ 16 The Two of Us Silent ........................................................................... 17 8. Buon giorno, Amore ............................................................................ 18 Good Morning Love. ........................................................................... 19 9. U Chèmmiénte ..................................................................................... 22 The Convent ......................................................................................... 23 VIII 10. Dóce è a vóce sije ................................................................................ 26 Soft is Her Voice ................................................................................. 27 11 A móre, che è? ..................................................................................... 28 What Is Love? ...................................................................................... 29 12. A chènzóne du niénte ........................................................................... 32 The Song of Nothingness ..................................................................... 33 13. A móre è nóne e scíne .......................................................................... 36 Love Is Yes and No ............................................................................. 37 14. Fragile .................................................................................................. 38 Fragile .................................................................................................. 39 15. Se ......................................................................................................... 40 If .......................................................................................................... 41 16. Cartèllíne du Molise ............................................................................. 42 Molise Postcard ................................................................................... 43 17. Ballata di Joe Sèlimo ........................................................................... 46 Ballad of Joe Sèlimo ............................................................................ 47 18. Amore di donna lontana ....................................................................... 50 Love of a Woman Far Away ................................................................ 51 19. Blues della Kawasaki ........................................................................... 52 Kawasaki Blues .................................................................................... 53 20. Bèllàte du Mèhàre ................................................................................ 58 Ballad of the Sorcerer .......................................................................... 59 21. Bèllàte du Puórk .................................................................................. 70 The Ballad of the Pig ........................................................................... 71 22. Terminale ............................................................................................. 74 Terminal ............................................................................................... 75 IX 23. Io t'amo tu m'ami .................................................................................. 80 I Love You You Love Me .................................................................... 81 24. Le Cupolette ......................................................................................... 82 Cupolette .............................................................................................. 83 25. Chèmpàne d'Egnóne ............................................................................. 84 Bells of Agnone