And Suddenly Evening - Selected Poems

The early poems of Salvatore Ouasimodo, one of the most important representatives of 20th century Italian poetry, are directly connected to the Hermetic poetry movement. The horrifying experiences of the Second World War caused Ouasimodo's poetry to change, and in this period, the poet turned to deeply examining the sharp contradictions of the age and reflected the helpless people who were under the destruction and pain brought by the war in his poetry. Quasimodo's poem, which is woven with the unique natural images of the Sicilian land where he was born, its people and the reflections of the stormy past of his country, became read on an international scale, especially in the post-war period, with his strong mastery of phraseology that did not give up using the magical effects of the word, and the poet was deemed worthy of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature. According to Quasimodo, in this period that brings humanity to the brink of extinction in every sense, there is a need for socialist poetry, poetry that speaks to people, not to itself: “It is necessary to remake the human being; This is the main problem. We say to those who consider poetry a literary game and the poet as a stranger to life, that this is not the time to be distracted by such things. Remaking humans. "That's the mission."

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 12.5 x 21

First Print Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish