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

collected his dialect poetry from the period

1945-55 in a book entitled Rosa fresca

aulentissima, 1985. He has published several

essays, among which: Puisia siciliana [Sicilian

Poetry], 1988, and L’essere della poesia

[Poetry’s Being], 1980.

In the volume Rosa fresca aulentissima.

Poesie siciliane (1945-1955), published in 1985,

Paolo Messina collected a selection of his

“Sicilian poems” which had partly appeared

in newspapers, reviews and anthologies in

the decade indicated in titulo, with the aim

of attesting his contribution to the “avant-

garde” experience which in those years saw

some of the Sicilian poets gather in Palermo

around the Group “Alessio Di Giovanni,” of

which Messina himself, twenty-years-old at

the time, had been an active member. The

texts included in the collection avail