Love-in-Idleness: The Poetry of Roberto Zingarello

by John Bradley

Overview

Poetry. Italian History. Washington Prize winner, second edition. John Bradley's persona Roberto Zingarello allows him to become post-war Italy: in love, revenge, and confusion, he sings loose the past, questioning and questing into the uncertain future.

"We need more characters like Zingarello in American poetry and more poets like Bradley who will step out of bounds to shake us with writing that is so different and important."—Ray Gonzalez, The Bloomsbury Review

"Bradley enters the world of fictive poetry, and we are the richer for it. In Zingarello, Bradley has created a voice big enough to express the human dream of transcending history."—Bill Tremblay

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780915380886
Publisher:	The Word Works
Publication date:	01/22/2015
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	92
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.23(d)

About the Author

John Bradley is the author of five books: LOVE-IN- IDLENESS: THE POETRY OF ROBERTO ZINGARELLO (The Word Works, 2015), Terrestrial Music, War on Words, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2010), and Trancelumination. He has edited three anthologies: Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age; Learning to Glow: A Nuclear Reader; and EATING PURE LIGHT: HOMAGE TO THOMAS MCGRATH (The Backwaters Press, 2009). Recipient of two NEA fellowships and a Pushcart Prize, he teaches at Northern Illinois University.