Haiku for a Season/Haiku Per Una Stagione Contributor(s): Zanzotto, Andrea (Author), Secco, Anna (Editor), Barron, Patrick (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0226922219 ISBN-13: 9780226922218 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Paperback Language: Italian Published: October 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - Italian |
Dewey: 851.914 |
LCCN: 2012003675 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 7.9" (0.35 lbs) 120 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Andrea Zanzotto is one of the most important and acclaimed poets of postwar Italy. This collection of ninety-one pseudo-haiku in English and Italian--written over several months during 1984 and then revised slowly over the years--confirms his commitment to experimentation throughout his life. Haiku for a Season represents a multilevel experiment for Zanzotto: first, to compose poetry bilingually; and second, to write in a form foreign to Western poetry. The volume traces the life of a woman from youth to adulthood, using the seasons and the varying landscape as a mirror to reflect her growth and changing attitudes and perceptions. With a lifelong interest in the intersections of nature and culture, Zanzotto displays here his usual precise and surprising sense of the living world. These never-before-published original poems in English appear alongside their Italian versions--not strict translations but parallel texts that can be read separately or in conjunction with the originals. As a sequence of interlinked poems, Haiku for a Season reveals Zanzotto also as a master poet of minimalism. Zanzotto's recent death is a blow to world poetry, and the publication of this book, the last that he approved in manuscript, will be an event in both the United States and in Italy. |
Contributor Bio(s): Zanzotto, Andrea: - Andrea Zanzotto (1921-2011) was the author of more than twenty books of poems and collections of prose.Secco, Anna: - Anna Secco is an independent scholar and the translator of numerous articles, essays, and short works from English into Italian. Barron, Patrick: -Patrick Barron is associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. |