Hard bread / Peg Boyers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyers, Peggy, 1952-

Series:

Phoenix poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ginzburg, Natalia--Poetry.

Ginzburg, Natalia.

Women authors--Poetry.

Women authors.

Authors--Poetry.

Authors.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 93 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Summary:

The poems in Peg Boyers's "Hard Bread are "spoken" in the imagined voice of the Italian writer, Natalia Ginzburg (1916-91). While much of the book is based on Ginzburg's life--her upbringing in Turin; her brief marriage to the resistance activist, Leone Ginzburg; her experience of Fascism and war; her work as novelist, playwright, editor, and newspaper columnist; her embattled friendships with writers like Primo Levi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ernest Hemingway, and Cesare Pavese--much is invented. The result is a book by turns melancholy and acerbic, mournful and satiric, contemplative and combative.

Contents:

Coat 3

Offertory: Blood Oranges 8

Essay On Marriage 10

My Psychoanalysis 17

He Hates, He Loves 23

The Theater of Words 26

Journal Entry, London (1960) 27

Let Us Mourn An Unknown Writer 29

Ode to Ernest 32

Letter to a Suicide 35

For Primo Levi 37

The Voice in the Arbor 40

Open Letter to Alberto Moravia 42

Reading Elizabeth Bishop 45

Letter from Amherst, 1976 48

Caro Leone 53

Prison Box 55

Memoria: Regina Coeli Prison 58

Translation 60

Anniversary: March 24, 1984 62

Black Shirt 64

The First Thing to Go 69

Elegy 71

Letter to a Damaged Daughter 72

Apparition: View from San Miniato 74

Adult Children 76

The Dream of Music 79

Epilogue: L'Intervista 85.

ISBN:

0226069648

0226069656

OCLC:

47208474