Dialect Poetry of Southern Italy (Italian Poetry in Translation Book 2)
PAOLO MESSINA Paolo Messina was born January 2, 1923 in Palermo, where he lives. During W.W.II he served as an officer pilot; ha ...
collected his dialect poetry from the period 1945-55 in a book entitled Rosa fresca aulentissima, 1985. He has published several ...
themselves of an enlightening, preface by the author, where he evokes moments and motivations of that period, in which a solid g ...
branch as that of the Sicilians, whose poetic school had inaugurated our first literary civilization,”^2 and this was also due t ...
disalienation was virtually mature: “It was necessary to move ─ Messina notes ─ from a poetry, so to speak, that preyed on the p ...
death, that first nucleus of poets formed a group and took on the Master’s name. There were no manifestos or apparatus criticus, ...
from the texts collected in the aforementioned volume, constitutes a valuable exemplum of that historical climate. The engagemen ...
search for infinity (and this is also new). The text in ouverture: “Sicily,” from 1945, is still structured in quatrains with al ...
L’Achenio, Palermo, n.7-10, 1985-86. Notes 1 P. Messina, Rosa fresca aulentissima. Poesie siciliane (1945-1955), Palermo: Offici ...
Ura ca passa Si chiantu è st’ura ca passa e mi punci iu m’acquazzinu di tempu. Si junci vuci pi st’àspiri praj senza ciuri mi ri ...
dismesso / in controluce. (Traduzione di Lucio Zinna) ...
An Hour Transpires If this hour, transpiring stings me ─ lachrymose ─ I suffuse with time’s dew. If a voice crosses these bitter ...
Rispiru d’un ciuri Càlici biancu silenziu crisciutu supra un jiditu sentu ca s’asciuca lu risinu ca ti vagnò li manu. Nun è lu v ...
per una venz di cielo. / Così tutto aperto / respiri luce e profumo: / io mi sento / spuntare nel petto / un giardino di stelle. ...
A Flower’s Breath Calyx white silence ─ where you grow pinch by pinch I feel the dew that bathed your finger tips drying... It i ...
(Translated by Justin Vitiello) ...
Buchè D’amuri urduti oh duci limpi zàgari pi li cchiù bianchi manu di lu munnu stu ciauru vi priu trattinitilu tuttu com’è ‘nzin ...
Bouquet May these pristine orange blossoms interweave webs of love amid the whitest of hands only unleashing their fragrance thi ...
Carrettu sicilianu Tuttu roti, spinciutu di la rua s’adduma nni lu suli di cianciani e di giumma. Scrusciu supra du’ roti arruzz ...
rampa dura / di una canzone. // E d’appresso, / occhi neri / ombre di mani traditrici / freddi ricami / dentro i petti accesi. / ...
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