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Published to mark the first centenary of Italy's entry into the
Great War, Like Leaves in Autumn features 21 original Italian poems
by Giuseppe Ungaretti, with new English translations by Heather
Scott. These are set alongside 21 new poems by contemporary
Scottish poets writing in response to Ungaretti, and are
illustrated with striking black-and-white artworks from the ARTIST
ROOMS collection, owned by National Galleries of Scotland and Tate.
One of Europe's greatest modernist poets, Ungaretti was born and
raised in Alexandria, Egypt, to an Italian family from Tuscany.
From 1915, he served in the Italian infantry in the campaign
against Austria-Hungary. It was a ferocious conflict fought in the
mountains of Northern Italy in trenches dug out of Alpine rock.
Thousands died and Ungaretti's poems, written during pauses in the
fighting, channel these horrific experiences. In addition to his
grief and loss, these verses are shaped both by Ungaretti's sense
of exile and by his intense life-affirming poetic sensibility. A
century on, this anthology offers a creative interplay of
recollection, translation and new inspiration. Italian, English,
Scots and Gaelic voices mingle on these pages, and the artworks
spark a dialogue between words and images, creating an alchemy of
further meanings.
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Allegria (Paperback)
Giuseppe Ungaretti, Geoffrey Brock
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R459
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Geoffrey Brock, whose translations have won him Poetry magazine's
John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship,
finally does justice to these slim, concentrated verses in his
English translation, alongside Giuseppe Ungaretti's Italian
originals. Famed for his brevity, Ungaretti's early poems swing
nimbly from the coarse matter of tram wires, alleyways, quails in
bushes, and hotel landladies to the mystic shiver of pure
abstraction.
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The Sunken Keep (Paperback)
Giuseppe Ungaretti, Andrew Fitzsimons; Illustrated by Sergio Maria Calatroni
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R480
Discovery Miles 4 800
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A major new translation of one of Italy's greatest modern poets
Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) was a pioneer of the Modernist
movement in Italian poetry and is widely regarded as one of the
leading Italian poets of the twentieth century. His verse is
renowned and loved for its powerful insight and emotion, and its
exquisite music. Yet, unlike many of his peers, Ungaretti has never
been adequately presented to English readers. This large bilingual
selection, translated with great sensitivity and fidelity by Andrew
Frisardi, captures Ungaretti in all of his phases: from his early
poems, written in the trenches of northern Italy during World War
I, to the finely crafted erotic and religious poetry of his second
period, to the visceral, elegiac poetry of the years following the
death of his son and the occupation of Rome during World War II, to
the love poems of the poet's old age.
Frisardi's in-depth introduction details the world in which
Ungaretti's work took shape and exerted its influence. In addition
to the poet's own annotations, an autobiographical afterword,
"Ungaretti on Ungaretti," further illuminates the poet's life and
art. Here is a compelling, rewarding, and comprehensive version of
the work of one of the greatest modern European poets.
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