The siege : a sequence of poems = L'assedio / by Ljuba Merlina Bortolani ; translated from the Italian by Michael Palma ; with an introduction by Alfredo de Palchi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bortolani, Ljuba Merlina, 1980-

Contributor:

Palma, Michael, 1945-

Series:

Lannan translations selection series ; no. 1.

Lannan translations selection series ; no. 1

Standardized Title:

Assedio. English

Language:

English

Italian

Physical Description:

88 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, N.Y. : BOA Editions, 2002.

Summary:

Written when Ms. Bortolani was fifteen years old, "The Siege (L'assedio)" is driven by a brazen, exuberant voice and a linguistic acrobatics not unlike that of the most celebrated European teen prodigy poet-Arthur Rimbaud. Phantasmagorical and surreal, the poems move us through the chameleon-shadings of lust and love.

Ljuba Merlina Bortolani was born in Bologna in November 1980. She is the author of three poetic sequences. She is a student at the University of Bologna.

Michael Palma is a world-renown, prize-winning translator of Italian poetry. His terza-rima translation of Dante's "Inferno" will be published by W.W. Norton in January 2002.

Contents:

L'Assedio 10

The Siege 11.

ISBN:

1929918291

1929918283

OCLC:

49225728