Blood Autumn/Autumno Di Sangue

by Daniela Gioseffi, Elisa Biagini (Translator), Luigi Bonaffini (Translator)

Overview

Poetry. Translated to the Italian by Elisa Biagini, Luigi Bonaffini, Ned Condini, Luigi Fontanella, and Irene Marchegiani. Daneila Gioseffi's BLOOD AUTUMN/AUTUNNO DI SANGUE features selected poems and new work by the poet in both the original English and Italian translation. "Visionary and powerful. Tremendous vitality. A gifted and graceful writer"-Galway Kinnell. "A pleasure to read...Gioseffi's work is brilliant, compassionate, and timely"-D. Nurkse. SPD also carries WORD WOUNDS & WATER FLOWERS and GOING ON, as well as the Gioseffi-edited anthology WOMEN ON WAR: INTERNATIONAL WRITINGS.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781884419737
Publisher:	Bordighera Press
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Series:	VIA Folios Series , #39
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	123
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Daniela Gioseffi has presented her poetry throughout North America and Europe at universities, cultural centers, and international book fairs, in Madrid, London, New York, California, Barcelona, and Venice. She's performed her works for National Public Radio, Pacifica Radio, the BBC in Oxford and London and for numerous other media venues. Her book, Women on War: International Writings (Feminist Press, 2003) won an American Book Award, and was published in Vienna and London. Her novel, The Great America Belly (Doubleday & Dell, NY; New English Library, London) was optioned for a screenplay by Warner Bros. Her fiction, Daffodil Dollars won a PEN, 1990 short fiction award and was aired on many NPR affiliates. In 1993, Anchor/ Doubleday published her world compendium, On Prejudice: A Global Perspective with a fifty-page introduction by Gioseffi that won a Ploughshares Fund, World Peace Award and was presented at the United Nations. Poems contained in her debut collection, Eggs in the Lake (BOA Editions, 1979), won award grants from The New York State Council for the Arts. She published three more volumes of poetry, Word Wounds & Water Flowers, 1995, and Going On, 2000 (Bordighera: VIA Folios); and Symbiosis, 2002 (Rattapallax: NY). Her verse was etched in marble on a wall of PENN Station's 7th Avenue Concourse, New York, with Ginsberg's and Whitman's. In 2003, AIAE presented her with a Lifetime Achievement Award.