Nomad Diary/ Diario Nomade - Couverture rigide

Payne, Roberta L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0820474029 ISBN 13 : 9780820474021

Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2005

Synopsis

Giovanni Cecchetti's Nomad Diary begins with «The Great Valley», a superb long poem which shows the course of the planet framing the course of humankind and civilization. Following poems feature mesmerizing crocodiles, crazy cypresses, giant mosquitoes, the «pollen of jazz» of New Orleans, drunken islands, and an enchanted teenager in the sea. A short collection of elegant epigrams rounds out the volume. The West and Southwest were dear to Cecchetti and appear throughout the book. His essay «On Writing Poetry in a Foreign Land» has been translated here by Raymond Petrillo.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Author: Giovanni Cecchetti was born in Tuscany and educated at the University of Florence. He was later instrumental in the growth of the Italian departments at Tulane University, the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford, and UCLA. Professor Cecchetti's critical works encompass seven books and over 150 articles. He is well known as the translator into English of Verga and Leopardi. He published four volumes of poetry and three of lyrical prose. Raymond Petrillo, Emeritus Professor at Texas A & M University, published Contrappunti/Counterpoints (Peter Lang, 1997), an anthology of Cecchetti's lyrical prose; Nomad Diary is the first volume of his poetry to appear in English.
The Translator: Roberta L. Payne is Adjunct Associate Professor of English at the University of Denver. She received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Denver. She studied Italian literature at Stanford, UCLA, and Harvard. She is the co-translator (with Alexandra Hennessey Olsen) of The Elegy of Madonna Fiammetta (Peter Lang, 1993) and The Novellino (Peter Lang, 1995).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820474029
• ISBN 13: 9780820474021
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne