Selected Poems
Published on 5. June 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-1-80309-158-7 (ISBN)
Description
The first English translation of an Italian poet known for his uncompromising integrity and strong leftist sympathy for the working man.
Born in a sub-proletarian ghetto in Italy in 1930 under the fascist regime, Luigi Di Ruscio was an urchin running wild in the countryside, a Communist with clear anarchist leanings, a jack-of-all-trades. In 1957 he emigrated to Oslo, where he worked for forty years in a steel-wire factory, spending his evenings at the typewriter, delving with furious energy into his native Italian. Di Ruscio insisted that whereas the language of power is always a contrived, one-way fabrication, the language of the underprivileged is upfront and direct, aiming straight and sharp for the truth. Caustic as a shopfloor scouring agent, exhilarating in its overabundance, humor, and outspokenness, Selected Poems stands as a testament of tenacity, a record of class struggle, and a vital presence for our times.
Born in a sub-proletarian ghetto in Italy in 1930 under the fascist regime, Luigi Di Ruscio was an urchin running wild in the countryside, a Communist with clear anarchist leanings, a jack-of-all-trades. In 1957 he emigrated to Oslo, where he worked for forty years in a steel-wire factory, spending his evenings at the typewriter, delving with furious energy into his native Italian. Di Ruscio insisted that whereas the language of power is always a contrived, one-way fabrication, the language of the underprivileged is upfront and direct, aiming straight and sharp for the truth. Caustic as a shopfloor scouring agent, exhilarating in its overabundance, humor, and outspokenness, Selected Poems stands as a testament of tenacity, a record of class struggle, and a vital presence for our times.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Greenford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 159 mm
Width: 236 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
492 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80309-158-7 (9781803091587)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Luigi Di Ruscio (1930-2011) was an Italian poet and writer, who lived in Norway from 1957 through the end of his life. Cristina Viti is a translator working with Italian, English, and French.
Content
Introduction
From 'We Can't Get Used to Dying' (1953)
From 'Witches Wheelgrind Their Dentures' (1966)
From 'Enunciations' (1993)
From 'Apprenticeships' (1978)
From 'Repression: A User's Manual' (1980)
From 'The Last Collection' (2002)
From 'The Laughing God' (2008)
From 'We Can't Get Used to Dying' (1953)
From 'Witches Wheelgrind Their Dentures' (1966)
From 'Enunciations' (1993)
From 'Apprenticeships' (1978)
From 'Repression: A User's Manual' (1980)
From 'The Last Collection' (2002)
From 'The Laughing God' (2008)