The Man I Pretend to Be – The Colloquies and Selected Poems of Guido Gozzano: 79 (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation) - Hardcover

Gozzano, Guido; Palma, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691642621 ISBN 13: 9780691642628

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Translated here in a bilingual edition is Gozzano's best and best-known collection of poems, The Colloquies, along with a selection of his other poems. Also included is an introductory essay by Eugenio Montale, the Italian poet and winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Originally published in 1981.

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About this title

Review

"Winner of the 1997 Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize for the Translation of Modern Italian Poetry"

About the Author

Michael Palma is the recipient of the Italo Calvino Award for his translation of My Name on the Wind: Selected Poems of Diego Valeri and of the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award from the American Academy of American Poets for his translation of The Man I Pretend to Be: The Colloquies and Selected Poems of Guido Gozzano. A poet in his own right, Palma has published three collections of verse, and his poetry has been anthologized in, among other publications, Penguin s Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691642621
• ISBN 13: 9780691642628
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 282