Book record
Theme of farewell and after-poems
Milo De Angelis
Translated from Italian by Susan Stewart
Theme of farewell and after-poems, by Milo De Angelis and translated by Susan Stewart, is a book marked by departure before the first poem begins. De Angelis is one of Italy’s major contemporary poets, known for intensity, mortality, athletic and urban imagery, and a lyric pressure that can feel both philosophical and immediate. Stewart’s translation brings that severe music into English. The title suggests farewell not as a single goodbye but as a theme, something repeated, varied, and lived through. The “after-poems” matter too: what language remains after loss, after parting, after the decisive moment has passed? I would read this book for its grave velocity. De Angelis makes the poem feel like a threshold crossed at speed.
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9780226020808