The Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni
Subtitle: A Bilingual Edition
Contributors: Marcus Perryman (Translator); Peter Robinson (Translator)
Edition: Bilingual edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780226748788
Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; Continental European; Poetry / Single Author / Continental European; Poetry
Description: "One of the most important Italian poets of the last century, Vittorio Sereni (1913-83) wrote with a historical awareness unlike that of any of his contemporaries. A poet of both personal and political responsibility, his work sensitively explores life under fascism, military defeat and imprisonment, and the resurgence of extreme right-wing politics, as well as the roles played by love and friendship in the survival of humanity. The first substantial translation of Sereni's oeuvre published anywhere in the world, The Selected Poetry and Prose of Vittorio Sereni is a unique guide to this twentieth-century poet. A bilingual edition, reissued in paperback for the poet's centenary, it collects Sereni's poems, criticism, and short fiction with a full chronology, commentary, bibliography, and learned introduction by British poet and scholar Peter Robinson."--Publisher's website.