Book record
Night Of Shooting Stars
Leonardo Sinisgalli
Translated from Italian by W. S. Di Piero
Night Of Shooting Stars, by Leonardo Sinisgalli and translated by W. S. Di Piero, carries a title filled with brief radiance and falling light. Sinisgalli was a poet deeply associated with both literary and scientific intelligence, and that matters: the stars here can be lyric, mathematical, remembered, or burning out before we name them. Di Piero’s translation gives English-language readers access to an Italian modernist whose work is often precise, luminous, and thoughtful. I would read this book for its charged brevity, the feeling that perception itself is a kind of meteor shower: sudden, patterned, impossible to hold for long. The poem becomes a place where science and wonder do not cancel each other. They look up together.
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Tavern Books
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9781935635062