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Allegria / by Giuseppe Ungaretti ; translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ungaretti, Giuseppe, 1888-1970, author.
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Ungaretti, Giuseppe, 1888-1970--Translations into English.
- Ungaretti, Giuseppe.
- Ungaretti, Giuseppe, 1888-1970.
- Genre:
- Translations.
- Physical Description:
- pages cm
- Edition:
- First Archipelago Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Famed for his brevity, Giuseppe Ungaretti's early poems swing nimbly from the coarse matter of tram wires, alleyways, quails in bushes, and hotel landladies to the mystic shiver of pure abstraction. These are the kinds of poems that, through their numinous clarity and shifting intimations, can make a poetry-lover of the most stone-faced non-believer. Ungaretti won multiple prizes for his poetry, including the 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He was a major proponent of the Hermetic style, which proposed a poetry in which the sounds of words were of equal import to their meanings. This auditory awareness echoes through Brock's hair-raising translations, where a man holding vigil with his dead, open-mouthed comrade, says, "I have never felt / so fastened / to life.""-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Originally published as L'Allegria by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A, 1969 Milano.
- Contains:
- Ungaretti, Giuseppe, 1888-1970. Poems. Selections
- Ungaretti, Giuseppe, 1888-1970. Poems. Selections. English.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ungaretti, Giuseppe, 1888-1970. Allegria.
- ISBN:
- 9781939810649
- 1939810647
- OCLC:
- 1136968158
- Publisher Number:
- 99985481836
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