Traces of Time (Open Letter International Poetry Series) - Softcover

Lucio Mariani

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1940953146 ISBN 13: 9781940953144

Publisher: OPEN LETTER, 2015

Synopsis

Lucio Mariani is known throughout Europe as one of Italy's most important contemporary writers. The poems in TRACES OF TIME have been culled from his entire career and are presented here in English. The collection includes Tiananmen, 20 Years Later, Protocols of War and Checkmate, which is about the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers. Every poem illustrates Mariani's concerns through dense imagery and elegant lines, seeming deeply rooted in history, yet at the same time contemporary.

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Review:

"Lucio Mariani's Traces of Time is a book of insinuating wisdom and delight. The poems are lyric, lucid, and often brief, but they never feel slight because they ponder, on a tangibly human scale, the secrets of of existence. . . . There are few books of poems in which I like every poem. This is one of them." –Dana Gioia

"Mariani is a poet of a direct but careful music, formal integrity, a commitment to history, and a sharp wit capable of grand beauty and excoriating irony." –Publishers Weekly

"Lucio Mariani's Traces of Time indeed traces almost forty years of his work as a lyric poet of sparest, most incisive, means. Following the course of myth, history, and the city of Rome that sustains him, Mariani reveals the frailty of our understanding and the paradoxes of our desires, aware that the poet's task is to find a form in which what is cherished can endure. The interlocutors of Mariani's poems are those who need them: his loves and enemies, his friends and strangers, and, most of all, his descendants—his readers, now and in the future."—Susan Stewart

About the Author:

Lucio Mariani is the author of eight volumes of poetry including Qualche Notizia del Tempo (Some News of Time) and Echoes of Memory, as well as a volume of essays, a collection of short stories, and translations of works by César Vallejo, Tristan Corbière, and Yves Bonnefoy.

Anthony Molino is a translator from the Italian, an anthropologist, and a psychoanalyst. His translations include Lucio Mariani's Echoes of Memory and works by Valerio Magrelli and Antonio Porta, among others.

About this edition

• Publisher: OPEN LETTER
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1940953146
• ISBN 13: 9781940953144
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156