Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli by Giovanni Pascoli and translated by Taije Silverman, Marina Della Putta Johnston

This is poetry from Italy.

Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli by Giovanni Pascoli translated by Taije Silverman, Marina Della Putta Johnston is published by Princeton University Press. This is a Selected originally written in Italian. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780691198279E12.

Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli, by Giovanni Pascoli and translated by Taije Silverman, Marina Della Putta Johnston from Italian, brings Italy Italian-language poetry into English through Italian pastoral memory, classical inheritance, and the quiet ache of selected poems speaking across time. Because it is a selected volume, the book also has a curatorial task: to make one poet’s range feel available without pretending to exhaust it. I would read it for fields, village sound, elegy, and the odd endurance of a traditional music made newly audible, not as a fixed lesson about a country or period. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives readers a grounded passage into a major Italian poetic lineage.

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