Document - Couverture souple

Rosselli, Amelia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 195421829X ISBN 13 : 9781954218291

Editeur : World Poetry Books, 2025

Synopsis

The pivotal 1976 work of one of Italy's most significant post-war voices asks how poetry can document lived experience while dialoguing with the Petrarchan sonnet tradition.

Long fascinated by the classical sonnet as an ideal model, Rosselli took on the Petrarchan structure of a canzoniere -- a text in which meaning is generated by sequence -- to contain the flood of 175 poems for her third collection. Speaking of DOCUMENT, Rosselli said: "It was hard work; those who do not write poetry cannot imagine to what lengths poets go in order to compose, even if they barely scrape by, and even if it's still the case that poetry is either inspired or worthless." This "hard work" conveyed the pain, intensity, and turmoil of her existence and of our own violent chaotic times. Originally published in 1976, DOCUMENT is the last of her major collections to be translated into English.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Amelia Rosselli was born in Paris in 1930. The daughter of the anti-fascist philosopher Carlo Rosselli and the British political activist Marion Cave, she was raised in exile, settled in Italy only after the war. An accomplished translator and musicologist, Rosselli published eight collections of poetry in Italian and one in English. After years of struggling with mental illness, she died by her own hand in 1996.

Roberta Antognini is Associate Professor Emerita of Italian Studies at Vassar College, NY. With Deborah Woodard, she has translated Amelia Rosselli's collections, Hospital Series , Obtuse Diary, The Dragonfly; and Notes Scattered and Lost. With Peter Robinson, Giorgio Bassani's The Collected Poems.

Deborah Woodard is a poet, teacher, and translator. She teaches at Hugo House, a literary center in Seattle, WA. She has published four translations from the Italian of Amelia Rosselli.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: World Poetry Books
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 195421829X
• ISBN 13: 9781954218291
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
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• Personne responsable: non disponible