Alda Merini is one of Italy's most important, and most beloved, living poets. She has won many of the major national literary prizes and has twice been nominated for the Nobel Prize--by the French Academy in 1996 and by Italian PEN in 2001. In Love Lessons, the distinguished American poet Susan Stewart brings us the largest and most comprehensive selection of Merini's poetry to appear in English. Complete with the original Italian on facing pages, a critical introduction, and explanatory notes, this collection gathers lyrics, meditations, and aphorisms that span fifty years, from Merini's first books of the 1950s to an unpublished poem from 2001. These accessible and moving poems reflect the experiences of a writer who, after beginning her career at the center of Italian Modernist circles when she was a teenager, went silent in her twenties, spending much of the next two decades in mental hospitals, only to reemerge in the 1970s to a full renewal of her gifts, an outpouring of new work, and great renown.
 Whether she is working in the briefest, most incisive lyric mode or the complex time schemes of longer meditations, Merini's deep knowledge of classical and Christian myth gives her work a universal, philosophical resonance, revealing what is at heart her tragic sense of life. At the same time, her ironic wit, delight in nature, and affection for her native Milan underlie even her most harrowing poems of suffering. In Stewart's skillful translations readers will discover a true sibyl of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini (Facing Pages)

Literature & Fiction

Merini, Alda

Poetry

Princeton University Press

Rufus has translated Merini's Italian poetry into English, into a bilingual edition of the original poems on one side, the translations on the opposite page. Alda is a prolific poet, recognised by Italians at large, and nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Prize.

Unpaid Ballads: Ballate Non Pagate (English, Italian and Italian Edition)

Dante Univ of Amer Pr

'a lyrical memoir' tr Pasquale Verdicchio

A Rage of Love: A Lyrical Memoir (1) (Prose Series 30)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Guernica Editions Inc.

La loca de la puerta de al lado

Genre Fiction

Editorial Tránsito

One of the signs of our time is undoubtedly the lack of humanity that can be seen in all walks of life regardless of origin, status or age. In Francisco: Canta de una criatura, Alda Merini shows the reader, through the words of Eliot, that “humanity is infinite,” as if she has known all along that only this humanity exists. It makes its way through us as we get to know one another, asking to be heard, seen, and treated the same way as the Saint Francis of Assisi heard, saw, and treated others. Alda Merini returns to dazzle us with her ever-present voice, with each word stubbornly sinking into reality to bring clarity to all.

Francisco: Canto de una criatura (Spanish Edition)

Vaso Roto Ediciones

Il suono dell'ombra. Poesie e prose (1953-2009)

Mondadori

Ballate Non Pagate (Collezione di poesia) (Italian Edition)

History & Criticism

GIULIO EINAUDI EDITORE

Superba è la notte (Collezione di poesia) (Italian Edition)

Contemporary

G. Einaudi

Fiore di poesia (Italian Edition)

Einaudi

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