Echoes of Memory
Published on 23. April 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-0-8195-6496-2 (ISBN)
Description
Lucio Mariani is known throughout Europe as one of Italy's most important contemporary writers. Echoes of Memory presents for the first time in English the full range of his poetry. His elegant and wonderfully subtle poems develop through assonance and spare imagery, drawing on classical allusions without leaving the contemporary space. Whether because of their diamond-sharp incisiveness or their swirling musicality, these poems hit home, producing deeply felt revelations. As critic Emilio Zucchi has written, "In Mariani one finds a poetry of the word as bread, bread broken and shared, kneaded from the idea that truth must, must, must exist in the form of a common language." These exquisite translations by Anthony Molino are drawn from over three decades of work and are presented facing the original Italian.
Reviews / Votes
"Mariani's poetry is direct, immediate, allusive, and oblique. He merges past and present with admirable quickness and the effect is bracing." - Mark Rudman, author of The Couple; "Mariani has emerged as one of the few significant post-Montalian poets in Italy, and Molino is a graceful, experienced, thoroughly reliable translator. The result is an elegant book, an important book, bringing a distinctive voice into English." - Rosanna Warren, Professor of Comparative Literature, Boston UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8195-6496-2 (9780819564962)
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Person
Lucio Mariani is the author of eight volumes of poetry including the recent Qualche Notizia del Tempo (Some News of Time, 2001), as well as a volume of essays, a collection of short stories, and translations of works by Cesar Vallejo, Tristan Corbiere and Yves Bonnefoy. Anthony Molino's published translations include the award-winning The Contagion of Matter (2000), by Valerio Magrelli. Thomas Harrison is Professor of Italian at the University of California, Los Angeles.