| Vanishing Points Contributor(s): Magrelli, Valerio (Author), McKendrick, Jamie (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0374532818 ISBN-13: 9780374532819 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - Italian |
| Dewey: 851.914 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.6" (0.85 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy - Ethnic Orientation - Italian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The renowned Italian poet Valerio Magrelli has forged a unique approach for exploring the subtleties of language, a poetry of perception that takes the measure of its own veerings, the exact degree / of deviation. His poems are histories of the inner life that turn into X-rays of the urban and the global, and press the intelligence into the service of the senses. Magrelli's poems condense the abstract and the intensely physical, subjecting modern experience to a minute and naked scrutiny. Not since Eugenio Montale has a poet brought together in one voice so many strands of the Italian lyric tradition and handled them with such originality. |
Contributor Bio(s): Magrelli, Valerio: - Valerio Magrelli was born in Rome. He has published critical works on Dadaism and Paul Valery, as well as notable translations of Mallarme, Verlaine, and Valery. He recently published a study of Baudelaire. |