Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Di Ruscio, Luigi; Viti, Cristina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1803091584 ISBN 13 : 9781803091587

Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2023

Synopsis

The first English translation of an Italian poet known for his uncompromising integrity and strong leftist sympathy for the working man.

Born in a sub-proletarian ghetto in Italy in 1930 under the fascist regime, Luigi Di Ruscio was an urchin running wild in the countryside, a Communist with clear anarchist leanings, a jack-of-all-trades. In 1957 he emigrated to Oslo, where he worked for forty years in a steel-wire factory, spending his evenings at the typewriter, delving with furious energy into his native Italian. Di Ruscio insisted that whereas the language of power is always a contrived, one-way fabrication, the language of the underprivileged is upfront and direct, aiming straight and sharp for the truth. Caustic as a shopfloor scouring agent, exhilarating in its overabundance, humor, and outspokenness, Selected Poems stands as a testament of tenacity, a record of class struggle, and a vital presence for our times.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Luigi Di Ruscio (1930-2011) was an Italian poet and writer, who lived in Norway from 1957 through the end of his life.

Cristina Viti is a poet and translator working with Italian, English, and French.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1803091584
• ISBN 13: 9781803091587
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible