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Selected Poems of Luigi Pirandello
Paperback
Series: Italica Press Poetry in Translation
ISBN13: 9781599103211
Publisher: Italica Pr
Published: Sep 20 2016
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Luigi Pirandello, an author best know for his plays, novels and short stories, was also a life-long poet. At the age of twenty-two, he published his first collection, Mal giocondo (1889, Troubled Joy), followed quickly by three further volumes, Pasqua in Gea (1891, Easter in Gea), Elegie renane (1895, Rhenish Elegies) and Zampogna (1901, Bagpipes). In 1912 he published his final volume of poetry, Fuori di chiave (Offkey), but he continued to publish poetry in literary journals and anthologies until his death in 1936.
In a literary career that spans the turning of the twentieth century, his poetry reflected many of the currents of his time: modernism and relativism, the tension between faith and science and the place of the individual in a world devoid of coherence. He writes movingly of nature -- silent, indifferent, unconscious, enduring -- as the very antithesis of chaotic human activity. He writes of life and death, children and coffee, of love, earth and dreams. His style might seem traditional -- more traditional than would be expected of an author whose work for theater surpassed mere innovation -- and while his forms might be conservative, his ideas matched the spirit of his age.
As the translator George Hochfield writes in his introduction, These poems reveal a somber and sensitive man, the dramatist, who, when the play is over and the curtain is drawn, comes to the front of the stage and addresses the audience directly.
This dual-language edition presents for the first time in English translation a selection of work from the entire range of Pirandello's poetic output. George Hochfield offers a sensitive and wise interpretation of that poetry.
Appendices include a selection from Arte e coscienza d'oggi (1893, Art and Consciousness in Our Time) and from Pirandello's Biographical Letter of 1914.
Dual-language Poetry
Introduction, bibliography, chronology, first-line indices, notes and appendices.
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