Within the sweet noise of life : selected poems / Sandro Penna ; translated by Alexander Booth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Penna, Sandro, author.

Contributor:

Booth, Alexander, translator.

Series:

Italian list

The Italian list

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Penna, Sandro--Translations into English.

Penna, Sandro.

Love poetry.

Rome (Italy)--Poetry.

Rome (Italy).

Genre:

Poetry.

Translations.

Physical Description:

86 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Seagull Books, [2021]

Language Note:

Translated from the Italian.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: From Poesie 1927-1938

Life... Is To Remember

Autumn

If The Summer Night Surrenders

If Behind The Window's Glow

The Sea Is Completely Blue

Country Cemetery

City

School

All Wrapped Up In Wind You Descend

Beneath The April Sky My Peace Is Uncertain

On The Slow Cart A Man's Asleep

Immobile In The Sky The Stars

Already Autumn Speaks

I Leave My Job Completely Full

O Dawn Desolate

When Midnight Comes You'll Find

It Was September, The Streets

Lullabied I'd Like To Live

From Appendix to Poesie 1927-1938

Down Into The Station's Coolpissoir

From Poesie 1938-1955

Little One Don't Run Away, Don't Go

The September Moon Above The Dark Valley

When The Light Weeps Upon The Streets

The Trains That Once Languished Here

The River Is Deserted

When The Sweet And Clamorous Dusk

It Wasn't The City

With A Flick Of The Wrist You Freed

Summer Dawn Arrives

Maybe Simple Poetry Descends

The Insomnia Of Swallows

Ifs Sweet To Cry

I Loved Everything In The World

Cemetery Lights

To Sit At An Unknown Table

It Was My City, The Empty One

Here's Theyoung Boy

Unexpected From Out Of The Bushes

Late From A Sunday Dance Hall

Train Delayed At Least An Hour

From Appunti 1938-1949

A Dream Of Beauty One Day

When The Forms Of The World Would Shimmer

And Furthermore I'm Alone

Drowsy Autumn Arrives

Claiming `Mother Nature' You, Leaving

Is The Indecisivenessyou Hide

Here's The Dear City

From Croce e delizia 1927-1957

Its Wonderful To Work

Maybe Youth Is Only This

`Let Me Go If Dawn's Already On Its Way'

A Thought Of Love Returns

The Wind Gives Me Peace

From Giovanili ritrovate 1927-1936

Deep In The Night

Evening

From Altre 1936-1957

Tell Me, Light Of The Sky

Moralists

O The Rusty Lament

From Stranezze 1957-1965

On The Grass Maybe One Morning

Watching A Young Boy Sleep

Kiss Me, End Of Summer, On The Mouth

Night, Height Of Summer

At First Breath Of Fall

`Escape' You Say

Goodbye, Young One, Go Back Into The Dark

Awash In Light The Bike Awaits

But Absent From This Dark Dive

Swaggering And Gentle In Rome A Flash

From Stranezze 1965-1970

Black Fire Between Surf

Furnished Room In The Vicoletto

The Heat, The Cold, Of Waiting Rooms

How Beautiful The Summer Evening Is

I'M Always Looking Out A Window

To Us' To Us'

Maybe Ifs Better To Suffer Than To Enjoy

Sometimes, When Walking

Love Appeared At A Window And Asked

From Stranezze 1970-1976

The Sun Along The River Was Innocent

I Was Going Home. A Stream Of Blood

Literature

May Now The Time Come

Another World Is Opening: A Dream

From Il viaggiatore insonne 1977 (posthumous)

At First Cricket Call When The Air Is Still

Immobile And Lost, Slowly

Does Beauty Still Exist In The World?

To Renzo Vespignani

To Eugenio Montale.

ISBN:

9780857427878

0857427873

OCLC:

1222800166