marcin
(Marcin)
#1
search for infinity (and this is also new).
The text in ouverture: “Sicily,” from
1945, is still structured in quatrains with
alternate rhymes, but new are rhythm and
assonance, with a concinnitas that indicates
how the voice of the Hermetics and
Symbolists has already been assimilated in a
personal way. The same happens in the
sonnet “Passaggi” [Passages], from 1947,
characterized by metaphors which are fresh
an unusual with respect to tradition:
“mocking eyes, “white sleep.” To the same
year belongs “Ura ca passa” [Passing Hour],
with which the poet leaves behind
traditional metrics and turns to free verse, in
full maturity. With “respiru d’un ciuri”
[Breathing of a Flower] the choice is
definitive.
Criticism: P. Mazzamuto, La mafia nella
letteratura, Palermo 1970; P. Longo, in