marcin
(Marcin)
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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