Against The Light

Against The Light

Against The Light

Against The Light

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Overview

This collection presents a bilingual Italian-English selection of the poetry of Tiziano Broggiato, winner of the prestigious Premio Montale. The translations, by Canadians Patricia Hanley and Maria Laura Mosco, bring to North American audiences the poetry of an author who has already been translated into half a dozen languages.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781550716641
Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc
Publication date: 04/30/2013
Series: Essential Translations
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 136
File size: 305 KB

About the Author

Tiziano Broggiato was born in Vicenza in 1953, where he currently lives. Among his most recent publications: Dieci poesie (Mondadori 2007), Anticipo della notte (Marietti 2006), and Parca lux (Marsilio 2001), awarded the prestigious Premio Montale and the Premio dell?Unione Lettori Italiani. His poetry has been translated into several languages: Spanish, French, English, Croatian, Serbian and Greek. Broggiato's latest collection, Città alla fine del mondo, will be published by in 2013.

Table of Contents

Preface 9

Elogio della fuga - Flight's Elegy 13

Elogio della fuga 14

Flight's Elegy 15

Parca lux - Parca Lux 27

Il contagio di Celan 28

Celan's Affliction 29

Voce 30

A voice 31

12 Maggio 32

May 12th 33

Visita a Treblinka 34

Visit to Treblinka 35

Lí 36

There 37

Nulla resta della tua fuga: 38

Nothing is left of your flight: 39

È lo stesso tempo in bilico 40

It is the same time of uncertainty 41

Umbra sine spe 42

Umbra Sine Spe 43

Finestre - The View Beyond 47

Finestra di grattacielo 48

Window of a Skyscraper 49

Centre di salute mentale 50

Mental Health Centre 51

Al di là dei vetri 52

Beyond these windows 53

Le terre riemerse - Resurgent Lands 55

Ritorno a Peschiera del Garda 56

Return to Peschiera del Garda 57

Breve diario dalla terra riemersa 58

Brief Diary from a Resurgent Land 59

Anima corallii - Anima Corallii 65

Così 66

So 67

Crisalide 70

Chrysalis 71

L'uccello marino 72

The sea bird 73

Precluse ogni memoria 74

The silent truce 75

Il portale scorto a malapena 76

The entrance barely visible 77

Alla funzione domenicale 78

At Sunday Mass, he liked to 79

Lugano 5:50 80

Lugano 5:50 81

Nella tua mente rimasta fanciulla 82

In your mind a child remains 83

Non conoscevano low 84

They didn't know 85

Proteggimi 86

Protect me 87

- Non partirò. Non andrò 88

-I won't leave. I won't go anywhere 89

La tarda estate entra nella stanza 90

Late summer enters the room 91

Per la tua troppo innocente esistenza 92

It is your too-innocent life which 93

È sempre stata la mia persecuzione 94

My torment always 95

Anima corallii 96

Anima Corallii 97

Lasciati trasportare dal fiume ombroso 98

Let yourself be carried by the shaded river 99

In ciascun giorno delta mia voce 100

With my voice, each day 101

«I gabbiani del Tevere 102

"No Tiber seagull 103

Notes 107

Acknowledgements 108

About the Author/Translators 109

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