The harvest and the lamp / poems by Andrew Frisardi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frisardi, Andrew, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Colosseum books ; 3.

Colosseum books ; 3

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 83 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Steubenville, OH : Franciscan University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"The Harvest and the Lamp, the third volume of the Colosseum Books series, is a singular collection of poems in an wide variety of forms and voices. Author Andrew Frisardi writes on fundamental human themes such as love and desire, death and grief, the nature of the self and self-transcendence in a tone that ranges from serious to witty to exuberant. The poems are often set in Italy, where Frisardi has lived for a number of years, drawing on natural or concrete imagery as well as the imaginal or symbolic. Frisardi composes in a number of forms: sonnet and sestina, triolet and ghazal, nonce forms and free verse, gracefully and with a fresh use of diction and rhyme. As the late poet-translator Brett Foster put it, "Andrew Frisardi's [poems] are exquisitely made things, many angled and shining brightly. Ear, eye, and mind do their elegant, exact work." Frisardi is an internationally noted translator and independent scholar of Dante, and Dante's impact appears directly or indirectly in much of his poetry, including a few translations in this volume. The poet-biographer Paul Mariani has written that in Frisardi's poetry one finds the "resins of the classics everywhere. Add wit, sensitivity, humor and the recurring shock of recognition, then sit back and enjoy what Andrew Frisardi has prepared for you. Then come back and taste again for the sheer pleasure of the company.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. SPRING INTO NIGHT

The Yellow Moth

Easter Morning

Roll Call at Acheron

The Casket and the Crib

Remembering Sunflowers

For That Which Has Fallen

The Apricot Tree

Snowfall in Lent

Stream

Solitude

No Photo

Nostalgia for the Future

Commute

First Signs of Spring

A Casalinga in Spring

The Last Sunday before the Crudest Month

Gibbous

Rain at Night

II. AFTERLIFE IN THE PROVINCES

Aubades

Fall Moon Roman Fountain

Out and Back in Rome Afterlife in the Provinces

Baba Yaga and the Midsummer Night

Prayer at the Winter Solstice Trump l'Oeil

DANTE: You pilgrims walking by, oblivious

The Country of Fire

A Short History of War on TV

CLEMENTE REBORA: Out of the thick clouds' core

An Old Italian Watching the News

Pilgrim

Retired from Hell, Paolo Says It Was Heaven

The Ideal

Etruscan Tomb: An Inventory

A Contemplative Considers Show Biz

On the Cutting Down of a Pine Tree

Song of Achille, the Bottle Man

The Fever

Winter Solstice

III. THE POETRY OF ABSENCE

DANTE: Paradiso XX.1

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Logos

Francis and the Weaver

Rosemary

To the Sun in March

Maya in Two Movements

Phenomena

Trying to Remember the Myth of Poppies

And: A Spring Forecast

DANTE: Guido, I think it would be great if you

CLEMENTE REBORA: From the tautened image

Non-Noah and the Rainbow

Waves

May Day Black Locust August

Anamnesia

Aeolian

Dialectic

The Poetry of Absence

The Harvest and the Lamp.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781733988964

1733988963

OCLC:

1159604456

Publisher Number:

99985841805