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Locomotrix
Amelia Rosselli
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Description for Locomotrix
Paperback. A musician, musicologist, and self-defined "poet of research," Amelia Rosselli (1930-96) was one of the most important poets to emerge from Europe in the aftermath of World War II. This collection brings together a selection of her poems and prose in English. Editor(s): Scappettone, Jennifer. Translator(s): Scappettone, Jennifer. Num Pages: 340 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: DCF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
A musician, musicologist, and self-defined "poet of research," Amelia Rosselli (1930-96) was one of the most important poets to emerge from Europe in the aftermath of World War II. Following a childhood and adolescence spent in exile from Fascist Italy between France, England, and the United States, Rosselli was driven to express the hopes and devastations of the postwar epoch through her demanding and defamiliarizing lines. Rosselli's trilingual body of work synthesizes a hybrid literary heritage stretching from Dante and the troubadours through Ezra Pound and John Berryman, in which playful inventions across Italian, English, and French coexist with unadorned ... Read more
A musician, musicologist, and self-defined "poet of research," Amelia Rosselli (1930-96) was one of the most important poets to emerge from Europe in the aftermath of World War II. Following a childhood and adolescence spent in exile from Fascist Italy between France, England, and the United States, Rosselli was driven to express the hopes and devastations of the postwar epoch through her demanding and defamiliarizing lines. Rosselli's trilingual body of work synthesizes a hybrid literary heritage stretching from Dante and the troubadours through Ezra Pound and John Berryman, in which playful inventions across Italian, English, and French coexist with unadorned ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226728834
SKU
V9780226728834
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About Amelia Rosselli
Jennifer Scappettone is assistant professor of English and creative writing and associate faculty of Romance languages and literatures at the University of Chicago. Her poetry collections include From Dame Quickly and Thing Ode/Ode oggettuale.
Reviews for Locomotrix
"In the landscape of twentieth-century Italian writing, Amelia Rosselli's poems stand out as a unique achievement, cultivating oblique, discontinuous forms that mix social diagnosis and satire, memory and introspection, tragedy and utopianism. Jennifer Scappettone has produced an ambitiously innovative translation whose effects are at once stunning and uncanny in recreating the Italian. The result is a body of poetry that ... Read more