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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alda Merini , Susan StewartPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.170kg ISBN: 9780691171265ISBN 10: 0691171262 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 31 May 2016 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsReviews[T]hese lovely translations will enable American readers, many of whom will be encountering these poets for the first time, to see what all the fuss is about. --David Skeel, Books & Culture Every now and then, poetry is capable of hitting the mark--more simply, accurately and succinctly--than anything else in the world. It can touch, heel, inspire, enquire, and what's more, understand, during periods of extreme pain, peril and anguish; which, if we really, really think about it, is what accounts for poetry's inexorable validity. So when something great comes along, it certainly lightens the load and brightens the day. It's simply wonderful, and as such, ought to be embraced with both open arms and an open heart. Such is the case with Love Lessons, the selected poems of one of Italy's most beloved and important poets, Alda Merini. --David Marx, davidmarx.co.uk Little translated ... in the English language, [Alda Merini's] work is intelligently presented with an insightful introduction by American translator and poet Susan Stewart. --Greta Aart, Cerise Press The line-by-line accuracy of Stewart's translations nearly makes of Love Lessons a primer for students of Italian. --Will Schutt, West Branch The line-by-line accuracy of Stewart's translations nearly makes of Love Lessons a primer for students of Italian. --Will Schutt, West Branch Little translated . . . in the English language, [Alda Merini's] work is intelligently presented with an insightful introduction by American translator and poet Susan Stewart. --Greta Aart, Cerise Press Every now and then, poetry is capable of hitting the mark--more simply, accurately and succinctly--than anything else in the world. It can touch, heel, inspire, enquire, and what's more, understand, during periods of extreme pain, peril and anguish; which, if we really, really think about it, is what accounts for poetry's inexorable validity. So when something great comes along, it certainly lightens the load and brightens the day. It's simply wonderful, and as such, ought to be embraced with both open arms and an open heart. Such is the case with Love Lessons, the selected poems of one of Italy's most beloved and important poets, Alda Merini. --David Marx, davidmarx.co.uk [T]hese lovely translations will enable American readers, many of whom will be encountering these poets for the first time, to see what all the fuss is about. --David Skeel, Books & Culture Author InformationSusan Stewart is the author of five books of poems, including Red Rover and Columbarium, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other books include Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, which won the Christian Gauss and Truman Capote prizes for literary criticism, and The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics. A former MacArthur Fellow, she is the Annan Professor of English at Princeton and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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