Book record
Selected Poems of Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Translated from Italian by George Hochfield
Selected Poems of Luigi Pirandello, by Luigi Pirandello and translated by George Hochfield from Italian, brings Italian-language poetry from Italy into English through Pirandello's lyric work, theatrical intelligence, and the less familiar poetic side of a major Italian writer. 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 mask, theater, identity, and the shifting faces behind ordinary speech, not as a fixed lesson about Italy. 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 Luigi Pirandello belongs in the translated poetry library because it opens a poetic doorway into an author many readers know first through drama and fiction.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Italica Press, Inc.
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9781599103211