Luigi Pirandello 1867-1936
Italian Author, Playwright, Poet
Caricature from lavanguardia.com
(Regarding Luigi Pirandello)
light of absurdist literature
psychological dramas
novellas enough to churn time
tragicomedies pitting
the mind against moments
confused by existence
he celebrates virtues of
stark unreality undermines
classical fiction with heroes
who tear at traditions of
family and faith giving
skeleton characters freedom
to range across aspects of rage
in their search for an author
who craves their completion
a moralist seething with
pessimist passion arranging
the madness of men upon
page after page of nobel
winning prose at a time when
depression engulfed western
circumstance setting his stage
with foul props of despair
bringing forth the Sicilian
sulfur that quickened his blood
to cerebral conclusions that
daze his inquisitive readers
Poesy plus Polemics 
in some ways captures the Modernists as a group after WWI, but at the same time beautifully captures his uniqueness
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I’m not exactly a student of the modernist genre, but I have certainly read my share of authors
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