marcin
(Marcin)
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death, that first nucleus of poets formed a
group and took on the Master’s name. There
were no manifestos or apparatus criticus,
although a few traces can be found in local
publications. In 1955 the Group published an
anthological volume Poesia dialettale di
Sicilia, with an introductory comment by G.
Vaccarella and texts by Ammannato,
Buttitta, Conti, Varvaro, Grienti, Messina,
Molino, Orsini, Tamburello. In 1957, in the
Roman review Il Belli edited by Mario
Dell’Arco, Vann’Antò defined neòteroi the
new poets, Sicilian like himself.
Messina defines the Group’s main points
as follows: development and adoption of a
Sicilian koinè; syntactic and metric freedom
in favor of expressive power; unity of
thought, language and reality, in a Sicilian
perspective of life and art.^5
Paolo Messina’s poetry, as it emerges