The first comprehensive anthology of modern Italian poetry, in a
beautiful bilingual edition
More than a century has passed since F. T. Marinetti's "Futurist
Manifesto" slammed the door on the nineteenth century and trumpeted
the arrival of modernity. Since then, against the backdrop of two
world wars and many social upheavals, Italian poets have explored
the possibilities of verse in a modern age, creating one of the
great bodies of twentieth-century poetry.
Even before Marinetti, poets such as Giovanni Pascoli had begun to
clear the weedy rhetoric and withered diction from the
once-glorious but by then decadent grounds of Italian poetry. And
their winter labors led to an extraordinary spring: Giuseppe
Ungaretti's wartime distillations and Eugenio Montale's "astringent
music"; Umberto Saba's song of himself and Salvatore Quasimodo's
hermetic involutions. After World War II, new
generations--including such marvelously diverse poets as Sandro
Penna, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Amelia Rosselli, Vittorio Sereni, and
Raffaello Baldini--extended the promise of the prewar era into our
time.
Surprising and illuminating, "The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century
Italian Poetry" invites the reader to examine the works of these
and other poets--seventy-three in all--in conversation with one
another. Edited by the poet and translator Geoffrey Brock, these
poems have been rendered into English by some of our finest
English-language poets, including Charles Wright, Paul Muldoon, and
many exciting younger voices.
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