20th-Century Italian Poems

Jamie McKendrick

20th-Century Italian Poems, edited by the celebrated poet and translator Jamie McKendrick, represents some of the strongest poetry Europe produced in the last century, including poetry by Montale, Ungaretti, Saba, Quasimodo and D’Annunzio, among many others.

Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571197002
Date Published
03.06.2004
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Summary

Italy has produced some of the most inventive and controversial poetry of the past one hundred years. In this new anthology, all the major Italian poets of the early part of the century are well represented – Montale, Ungaretti, Saba, Quasimodo and D’Annunzio among them – poets who have filtered through to the English speaking world, and are already influential and appreciated. But many of their contemporaries from the mid-century and later are far less known – and deserve to be known – and Jamie McKendrick turns the light to them as well, including the work of Sereni, Passolini, Bertolucci and many others. 20th-Century Italian Poems is a stimulating sift through the key poets and poems of this fascinating period in European literature.

JamieMcKendrick

Jamie McKendrick was born in Liverpool in 1955. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including The Marble Fly (1997), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection and a Poetry Book Society Choice; Ink Stone (2003), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award; and Crocodiles & Obelisks (2007), shortlisted for the Forward…

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