Shards - Fragments of Verses (Hardcover)

Sensual and glimmering, Lorenzo Chiera's elliptical fragments evoke nights of bawdy excess in Trastevere ("City made of Roman ruins . . . / what a whorehouse!"), translated here by one of the most renowned poets of our time. In his preface, Lawrence Ferlinghetti describes the experience of reading Chiera for the first time: "We soon realize we are in the presence of a savage erotic consciousness, as if the lust-driven senses were suddenly awakened out of a hoary sleep of a thousand years, a youth shaken awake by a rude medieval hand, senses still reeling, drunk in the hold of some slave ship, not knowing night from day nor sight from sound, the eye and the ear and the nose confounding each other, not yet knowing which function each was to take up in the quivering dawn."

General

Imprint:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2015
Authors:	Lorenzo Chiera
Translators:	Massimiliano Chiamenti • Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Dimensions:	163 x 112 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	64
ISBN-13:	978-0-8112-2475-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8112-2475-9
Barcode:	9780811224758

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