Contemporary Italian Women Poets A Bilingual Anthology

Name: Contemporary Italian Women Poets A Bilingual Anthology
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ISBN: 9780934977173

ISBN-10: 0934977178

ISBN-13: 9780934977173

Edition: 2001

Authors: Cinzia Sartini Blum, Lara Trubowitz, Mariella Bettarini, Cristina Campo, Anna Cascella

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Contemporary Italian Women Poets introduces English-reading audiences to the diversity of contemporary women's poetry in Italy during the past five decades. It includes twenty-five authors whose work has been published since World War II: poets from different generations and regions, some with international acclaim, others known primarily to those within women's literary circles. THE POETS who appear are: Mariella Bettarini, Cristina Campo, Anna Cascella, Patrizia Cavalli, Elena Clementelli, Rosita Copioli,Biancamaria Frabotta, Luciana Frezza, Vera Gherarducci, Margherita Guidacci, Armanda Guiducci, Jolanda Insana, Vivian Lamarque, Gabriella Leto, Dacia Maraini, Daria Menicanti, Alda…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Italica Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100

Preface
Introduction
On Translation
Chameleon	p. 2
What's Left of You	p. 4
I Don't Know	p. 4
To the Readers Who Write to Me	p. 4
Epigram for a Worm	p. 6
If	p. 6
Felines	p. 8
Seagulls	p. 8
Biographical News	p. 8
Love Says	p. 10
Meditations and Maxims
Madame X	p. 12
The Crazy Mother	p. 12
Before Our Encounter	p. 14
Map of the Winter Sky	p. 16
Spring	p. 16
It Is like a Shortness of Breath	p. 18
Anniversary with Agave Plants	p. 18
The White Summer Clothes Are Folded Away	p. 22
At Times I Say: Let's Try to Be Joyous	p. 22
Love, Today My Lip	p. 22
Now I Want All My Letters White Again	p. 24
Devout like a Branch	p. 24
Indian Summer	p. 26
The Tiger Absence	p. 26
Canon IV	p. 28
Brevity of Embraces	p. 30
Upon Closing the Book	p. 30
Readings	p. 30
In Emily's Manner	p. 32
I Look at You So Old	p. 32
Delivery	p. 34
Under an Impure Star	p. 34
Perhaps One Day There Will Be Ways	p. 36
Your Hands, My Love	p. 38
Circle and Obsession of Walls	p. 38
Etruscan Notebook	p. 40
I'd Like to Try Telling You of Spring	p. 42
Moviola	p. 44
The Present	p. 46
The Prison	p. 46
Memory's Usefulness	p. 48
It Is Said by Some Sailors, the Old	p. 48
Ultrasound	p. 50
The Crossroads	p. 50
To the Readers	p. 52
Spark of Green	p. 52
To the Victims of Mauthausen	p. 52
Role Reversal	p. 54
Old Dedication	p. 56
Against the Current	p. 56
To Allen Ginsberg and Co	p. 58
Places	p. 60
Work	p. 62
The Smile	p. 64
Eurydice	p. 66
Summer	p. 66
September 22nd	p. 68
October 27th	p. 68
December 15th	p. 76
April 5th	p. 76
June 30th	p. 78
Infinite We Count the Dead! The Dance Is Almost Finished! Death	p. 82
If the Soul Loses Its Gift Then It Loses Ground, If Hell	p. 82
Dawn Presented Itself Bare-Armed and Immodest	p. 84
A Feeble Little Voice: All It Takes Is Barely Opening the Shutter	p. 84
In the Evening the Sky Roams, a Meager	p. 84
Around This Body of Mine	p. 86
I Dreamt of Visiting Relatives	p. 88
A Blue That Isn't Even Blue or in Any Case	p. 88
The Mirrors! The	p. 90
Tonight with Bold Desire	p. 92
It Wasn't the Love of Others or Mine	p. 94
Steep Acquisitions Motionless Fears	p. 94
There Is Not and There Will Never Be So Much	p. 94
Here Where the Path	p. 96
If a Privileged Light	p. 96
Indeed You Came Home Too Late	p. 96
The Ship Waits in the Harbor	p. 98
What Is Left and by Now Reduced to Little	p. 98
Among Myths and Specters of the Future	p. 98
Love Dream Verse	p. 100
Dies irae	p. 102
Hymn	p. 102
Genesis	p. 104
Song of Reply	p. 104
Ah If at Least I Could	p. 106
The Bird of Fire	p. 106
I Leave You These Imprints on the Earth	p. 108
I Was Born on the Twenty-First in Spring	p. 108
The Overcoat	p. 108
I Open the Cigarette	p. 110
Talin of the Pasta Factory	p. 112
Sentimental Suffering of the Oyster of Smoke	p. 114
Rondeau Tempo	p. 116
The Angel Who Separated Us with the Flame	p. 118
Nursery Rhyme in Eight Strophes	p. 120
Bella and the Golem	p. 126
So Inferred	p. 134
The Clear Form Clashes	p. 134
Syntactic and Verbal	p. 134
Only Indirectly	p. 136
Harry's Bar Ballad	p. 138
The Geographical History	p. 140
Frisbees on Light	p. 142
Iteration	p. 148
Demand	p. 148
Project	p. 148
Ready-Made World	p. 148
"Now Melanctha Had neither Home, nor Regular Occupation."	p. 150
I Dreamt a Pig	p. 156
The Man with Long Legs	p. 156
Love If This Is Love	p. 158
Family Stories	p. 158
I Am Two	p. 160
I Spent the Night	p. 162
Your Face Has No Name	p. 164
Lemon, Hot Water and a Blood Clot	p. 164
A Little Woman with Medusa Eyes	p. 166
To Know Me?	p. 168
The Parabola of the Heart	p. 172
The Colic Passion	p. 176
The Tapestry of the Heart	p. 176
The Rooting	p. 180
The Scream of Abu Nuwas	p. 182
Forgetfulness is Not	p. 186
Difficult with You	p. 186
Even Your Escape Is a Bit Special	p. 188
The Nomad of the Sky	p. 190
In the Deposits of the Heart	p. 190
[To One Afflicted with Adolescence]	p. 192
Fragment for the Mother	p. 194
There Is Only One Almighty	p. 194
The Holm Oak	p. 196
The Name	p. 198
Biography	p. 198
If Nature Bellows	p. 200
In That Moment When the Body Drowns	p. 200
Let Us Love As We Choose: Water	p. 202
I Say That the Cricket the Scorpion the Grasshopper	p. 204
Epilogue [at the Proper Distance]	p. 204
The Poet's Home
If One Always Denies	p. 208
Body and Soul	p. 208
Distance	p. 210
Marsh Metropolitan Season	p. 212
Winter Landscape	p. 212
Brief Ecstasy	p. 212
The Dim Light Splits the Woods in Two Distinct Lines	p. 214
Erosion of Utopia or Rigor of Patience?	p. 214
It Is True. I Am Not a Poet the Way You Are	p. 214
Heloise
Dianae sumus in fide	p. 218
Myopia	p. 220
Shipwreck	p. 222
Self-Portrait in the Third Person	p. 222
There Was a Castle	p. 224
Illegitimate Poem	p. 224
I Wanted to Dream the Mailman	p. 224
The Lady of the Snow	p. 226
The Lady of the Last Time	p. 226
Newborn Lover	p. 226
The Gentleman in Front	p. 226
The Gentleman in the Heart	p. 228
The Gentleman and the Lady	p. 228
Little Girl	p. 228
Prayer of Mothers Who Unintentionally Failed Their Children	p. 230
Looking at the Moon	p. 230
Stunned, I Was Looking for Reasons	p. 232
In the Just Dampened Park	p. 232
To Simulate the Burning of the Heart, the Humiliation	p. 232
Far from the Kingdoms	p. 234
Of All Distances the Best Possible One	p. 234
Across My Face the Nights Fall	p. 236
Inside Your Sea My Boat Was Sailing	p. 236
If Now You Knocked on My Door	p. 238
It Will Not Apprehend the Object	p. 238
"I Go, but Where? Oh Gods!"	p. 240
Eurydice	p. 242
Sea Dreams	p. 242
Make Your Body a Heart	p. 246
The Heart and the Severed Head	p. 248
I	p. 250
The Lightening	p. 250
Nudity	p. 250
Monotony	p. 250
On the Sea	p. 252
Poems for a Little Boy
The Other Simulation	p. 258
The Word Knows How to Seduce the Flesh	p. 258
I Despair Because I Don't Have Words	p. 258
And This Is a Beautiful Night That in the Heart	p. 260
Why Are Those Who Are Loved So Dull and Leaden?	p. 260
Notes	p. 265
About the Poets	p. 271
Selected Bibliography	p. 301
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