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My Poems Won't Change the World (Paperback): Patrizia Cavalli My Poems Won't Change the World (Paperback)
Patrizia Cavalli 1
R333 R273 Discovery Miles 2 730 Save R60 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Two hours ago I fell in love and trembled, and tremble still, and haven't a clue whom I should tell' From one of the truly singular and beloved poets of contemporary Italy, these are poems of the self, the body, pasta, cats, the city and - always, and above all - love. This volume is the first substantial gathering of the best of Patrizia Cavalli's work from her first six collections, from 1974 to 2006, translated by a selection of renowned poets. By turns thoughtful and sly, sensual and comic, charismatic and profound, these are works perfectly attuned to the pleasures and pains of everyday life and love. 'The most intensely ethical poetry in Italian literature of the twentieth century' Giorgio Agamben 'Amazingly fresh and surprising. The world does change, in the telling' John Ashbery Edited by Gini Alhadeff

My Poems Won't Change the World - Selected Poems (Paperback, Bilingual): Patrizia Cavalli My Poems Won't Change the World - Selected Poems (Paperback, Bilingual)
Patrizia Cavalli; Edited by Gini Alhadeff
R680 R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Save R106 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

At last, an ample English-language selection of one of contemporary poetry's most vibrant voices
Any hall she has ever read her poetry in is invariably filled to the gills. Women like her, girls like her, and men like her, too. In Italy, Patrizia Cavalli is as beloved as Wistawa Szymborska is in Poland, and if Italy were Japan she'd be designated a national treasure. The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben said of Cavalli that she has written "the most intensely 'ethical' poetry in Italian literature of the twentieth century." One could add that it is, easily, also the most sensual and comical. Though Cavalli has been widely translated into German, French, and Spanish, "My Poems Won't Change the World" is her first substantial American anthology.
The book is made up of poems from Cavalli's collections published by Einaudi from 1974 to 2006, now freshly translated by an illustrious group of American poets, some of them already familiar with her work: Mark Strand, Jorie Graham, Jonathan Galassi, Rosanna Warren, Geoffrey Brock, J. D. McClatchy, and David Shapiro. Gini Alhadeff's translations, which make up half the book, are the result of a five-year collaboration with Cavalli.

This edition includes the original Italian language poems alongside the English translation.

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