marcin
(Marcin)
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convents. He contributed to numerous
reviews and was a point of reference for the
new poets. He died in Palermo December 6,
1946.
He is to be considered one of the greatest
Sicilian poets of this century. His work is a
blend of social issues and religious
sentiment. He was an authentic spokesman
for the “voices of the feud”: alongside the
sorrowful voice of the farmers, there is that
of the derelicts of the surfara (sulfur mine),
in which the characters of a new Dantean
hell are damned when still alive: a “carnàla,”
“not of the dead but of the living,”^1 a
“carcaruni” [large oven] that, at night,
“smokes dejectedly,” while “over the
mountain / the starlit sky widens, / the
countryside becomes more mournful.”^2
Life in the sulfur mine seems to be