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Last stops of the night journey / Milo de Angelis ; translated from the Italian by Patrizio Ceccagnoli and Susan Stewart.
Van Pelt Library PQ4864.E19 A2 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Angelis, Milo, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Italian poetry--21st century--Translations into English.
- Italian poetry.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 313 pages ; 16 x 15 cm
- Edition:
- First Archipelago Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2026.
- Language Note:
- Text in English and Italian.
- Summary:
- Glimmering meditations on time, memory, imprisonment, human connection, life and death by the preeminent Italian language poet, Milo De Angelis. An arrow hits a grape and carries it through the air, a hand untangles a knot, a voice emerges from a stone to speak about life. In his poems, Milo De Angelis attends to the experience of confinement. Since 1996, he has taught poetry in a high-security prison on the outskirts of Milan. He sees poetry as a daily salvation; when the knot comes undone, it "carries back the sweet human voice of bodies in motion." And when the stone cracks open, a voice tells of you and of me, a shared story. De Angelis never shies from the deep fears, darkness, and indeterminacy of incarceration. The characters of these poems wonder whether they will survive. They know all that stays hidden in an end, and they plan for their salvation. Milo De Angelis's language is ancient and new, transcendent, and urgent. Last Stops of the Night Journey pulses with the immensity of silence, memory, life, time, and fear. De Angelis insists that the infinite language of poetry can speak to the incarcerated person, greet them, know them, and chart a world beyond physical walls.
- Notes:
- "Originally published by Oscar Mondadori as Incontri e aguatti (2015) and Linea intera, linea spezzata (2021)" -- Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 9781962770637
- 196277063X
- OCLC:
- 1528538582
- Publisher Number:
- 90104514638
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