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Amelia Rosselli; Introduction by Barry Schwabsky
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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 social critique. In a period dominated by the
confessional mode, Rosselli aspired to compose stanzas
characterized by a new objectivity and collective orientation,
"where the I is the public, where the I is things, where the I is
the things that happen." Having chosen Italy as an "ideal
fatherland," Rosselli wrote searching and often discomposing verse
that redefined the domain of Italian poetics and, in the process,
changed the Italian language irrevocably. This collection, the
first to bring together a generous selection of her poems and prose
in English and in translation, is enhanced by an extensive critical
introduction and notes by translator Jennifer Scappettone.
Equipping readers with the context necessary for appreciating
Rosselli's experimental approach to language, Locomotrix seeks to
introduce English-language readers to this crucial, if still
eclipsed, voice of the twentieth century.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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