Tempo: Excursions in 21st Century Italian Poetry - Hardcover

Franco Buffoni; Dome Bulfaro; Maria Grazia Calandrone; Lidia Candiani; Milo De Angelis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1913640566 ISBN 13: 9781913640569

Publisher: Parthian Books, 2022

Synopsis

Contemporary Italian poetry is a varied landscape mostly uncharted for the reader in the Anglo\-American world. The writing offers an extraordinary array of styles, voices, approaches, ways of looking at the world and ways of representing it. This anthology tries to capture the multiplicity of these voices with its selection of the most representative poets from different backgrounds: academics, working\-class writers, editors, journalists, performers, travellers and professional translators. Each voice has its unique accent, poetics, style and topic. The reader will discover a diverse poetry dealing with a number of topical concerns such as identity, sex, politics, migration and race.

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About the Author

Luca Paci was born in Novara, north Italy in 1970. He studied Philosophy at Pavia University and moved to Glasgow in 1997 where he learned English. After taking up a PhD scholarship in Italian Studies, he moved to Swansea in 1999 and in 2004 obtained a doctorate on the intellectual history of Benedetto Croce. Paci is currently the Co-Director of the Italian Cultural Centre Wales, the Italian Film Festival Cardiff and part of the executive board of Wales Pen Cymru. For the past five years he has been teaching Italian Studies at Swansea and Cardiff University. Paci is a translingual poet, editor and translator into English, Welsh and Italian. He has published a number of essays, articles and poems in English and Italian. Among his translations are La Ragazza Carla/A Girl Named Carla by Elio Pagliarani (Troubadour 2006) and Bondo by Menna Elfyn (Ludo 2021).

Edition details

• Publisher: Parthian Books
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913640566
• ISBN 13: 9781913640569
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Luca Paci