Between the Blast Furnaces and the Dizziness: A Selection of Poems 1970-1999

Milo De Angelis

Translation and introduction by Emanuel di Pasquale

Chelsea Editions

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by by Gayle Ridinger. Introduction by Simone Giusti. Camillo Sbarbaro (1888-1967) experimented for fifty years with a form of prose poetry that he called trucioli--"shavings." Some of the first were written in the trenches during World War I. Simone Giusti writes in the Introduction that Sbarbaro's quest was to capture the ephemeral joys and sorrows of life with the right word or phrase so as to "free human beings from the hell that comes of depression, deadened senses and dulling routine."

Shavings: Selected Prose Poems, 1914-1940

Literature & Fiction

Sbarbaro, Camillo

Poetry

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by Ned Condini. One of the great poets of modern Italy, Giorgio Caproni wrote with aristocratic elegance, intellectual coolness and rythmic complexity. Yet his poems, so clear and easy to read, strike deep in the heart with a force that is rarely equalled: "O my family, my / family scattered like the Jews ... my torn tent blown away / with its fire and its god." Ned Condini deftly translates these poems, at turns elegiac, ironic, metaphysical, despairing, with terse free verse. The bilingual edition, based on the revised collection of the poet's life work, permits the reader to check the original and catch the supple changing rhythms.

The Earth's Wall: Selected Poems 1932-1986

Caproni, Giorgio

Land of Time

Luigi Fontanella

Winter Fragments: Selected Poems, 1945-1979

Bartolo Cattafi

Awakenings: Selected Poems 1932-1982

Carlo Betocchi

Translated and edited by Ned Condini

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by Riccardo Duranti, Anamaria Crowe Serrano, and Anthony Molino. Edited by Anthony Molino. In his introduction, "On Reading Valerio Magrelli," Oxford Professor Peter Hainsworth describes the title work as "a striking, ambitious and indeed ingenious creation, evidence of a poetric strategy that daringly spearheads and remains at the forefront of Italian poetry today." Valerio Magrelli is recognized in Italy as one of the country's most imaginative, innovative and vision-altering poets yet still remains insufficiently known to the English-speaking world. The present bilingual collection, combining selections from two works of the 1980s under the title Nearsights, together with the complete composition of 1999, "Instructions on How to Read a Newspaper," strives to rectify this situation.

Instructions on How To Read a Newspaper and Other Poems (Contemporary Italian Poets in Translation, 4) (Italian and English Edition)

Valerio Magrelli

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by Lynne Lawner. Spaziani seizes on the objects of everyday life and slyly transforms them. She has learned Montale's art of the difficult and the obscure, as well as Mallarme's techniques of control: a restricted vocabulary, short lines, compact forms, recurrent events, mysteries carefully wrapped and then partially unwrapped, but never fully exposed. The emotions as well remain under control, yet at times convey a chilling exaltation.

Painted Fire: A Selection of Poems 1954-2006 (Modern Italian Poets in Translation, 5)

Spaziani, Maria

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by Giuseppe Leporace and Deborah Woodward. Amelia Rosselli, whose heroic, anti-fascist father was assassinated by Mussolini's henchmen when she was seven years old, grew up in the cities of Europe and in America as the "daughter with a devastated heart." In fierce and incandescent verse that draws upon the French and English she learned in exile, Rosselli expresses the pain, irony and deep emotion of a traumatized spirit; she committed suicide in 1996.

The Dragonfly: A Selection of Poems: 1953-1981

Amelia Rosselli

Siren's Song: Selected Poetry and Prose, 1989-2009

Caddeo, Rinaldo

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