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Poesie scelte 1932-1960. Un’orchidea ora splende nella mano. Ediz. bilingue
Lorenzo Calogero
Translated from Italian by John Taylor
Poesie scelte 1932-1960. Un'orchidea ora splende nella mano, by Lorenzo Calogero and translated by John Taylor, presents Calogero’s selected poems through the image that has become central to his English-language reception: the orchid shining in the hand. As a bilingual or Italian-facing edition, it is especially valuable for readers who want to feel the relation between original and translation. Calogero’s work carries the poignancy of a poet long underrecognized, writing with solitude, intensity, and visionary delicacy. I would read this selection as both literary recovery and lyric encounter. The dates matter because they mark a sustained private labor, but the poems should not be reduced to biography. The orchid matters because it gives the reader a way to imagine the work: fragile, luminous, and almost unbearably held.
- Published
- 2024
- Publisher
- Lyriks
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9791280504111