Night Of Shooting Stars by Leonardo Sinisgalli and translated by W. S. Di Piero

This is poetry from Italy.

Night Of Shooting Stars by Leonardo Sinisgalli translated by W. S. Di Piero is published by Tavern Books. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935635062E12.

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.

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