The Living Theatre (Lannan Translations Selection Series) by Bianca Tarozzi,Jeanne Foster,Alan Williamson

By Bianca Tarozzi,Jeanne Foster,Alan Williamson

In this primary US book of celebrated Italian poet Bianca Tarozzi, narrative poems (presented bilingually in either English and the unique Italian) hold us during the poet's formative years stories of global battle II less than Mussolini, harsh post-war stipulations, and mid-century alterations that reworked Italian existence, particularly for girls. a special determine in modern Italian poetry, Tarozzi attracts major effect from acclaimed American poets—Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill—interweaving robust matters with humor and heart.

After:

you have packed the suitcase, close off the gas,
turned the entire lighting fixtures out, locked the window
and the massive outdoors door,
when you lean opposed to a wall, frightened of falling,
and wait, looking forward to the vehicle,
the implies that will shipping you
far away,
when the sky sails clear,
blue, and annihilating above the overpass,
and you haven't any previous or future,
in that vacant moment
poetry pitches its tent.

Bianca Tarozzi was once born in Bologna in 1941. Her father was once a political prisoner less than Mussolini, after which a Senator after the struggle. She obtained a level from Ca' Foscari collage of Venice, and taught English and American Literature for a few years on the college of Verona. The recipient of diverse literary honors, she has translated into Italian the works of Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, James Merrill, Richard Wilbur, A. E. Housman, Denise Levertov, and Louise Gluck. additionally the writer of many books of poetry, she started writing poems in 1947, and maintains to today. She at present splits her time among Venice and Milan, Italy.

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