Anvil Press Poetry

INTRODUCTION Salvatore Quasimodo was born in Sicily at Syracuse in 1901, the son of a station-master. His early days were spent in eastern Sicily, at Roccalimera, Gela, Acquaviva, Trabia and Messina. There, at the time of the earthquake, at the age of seven, he absorbed the images of death and...

THE QUESTERS How fade the glories of forgotten days Within these castle walls! The lives of old In fadeless drifts of crimsons, browns gold Piled high against the iron stone make blaze With constant memories the autumnal haze, That still for us the antique tale be told Of times when o'er the...