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Breath: Poems and Letters

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Rediscovery of a stunning achievement in modern Italian poetry.

At the start of a promising career, Antonia Pozzi committed suicide, leaving behind several hundred poems known only to her closest friends. The posthumous publication of this work led Eugenio Montale to praise Pozzi's desire to reduce the weight of words to the minimum. Her Modernist verse is lyrical and experimental, pastoral and erotic, powerfully evoking the northern Italian landscape and her personal tragedies amid the repressive climate of Fascism. Breath contains a representative selection of Pozzi's poems in an Italian/ English bilingual format along with a number of her letters. In an introductory essay, editor-translator Lawrence Venuti documents her tormented life, considers her sophisticated thinking about her writing, and sketches the rich literary traditions that she inherited, creating a detailed context in which her poems can be more fully appreciated. The translations affiliate Pozzi's poetry with the work of comparable English-language writers such as H.D., Mina Loy, and Lorine Niedecker, establishing in translation what Pozzi lacked in Italian: a tradition of Modernist women's poetries.

CONTRIBUTORS: Lawrence Venuti.

Language: English

Pages: 224

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Release: October 01, 2002

ISBN: 081956544X

ISBN 13: 9780819565440

Breath: Poems and Letters

4/5 ( ratings)

Rediscovery of a stunning achievement in modern Italian poetry.

At the start of a promising career, Antonia Pozzi committed suicide, leaving behind several hundred poems known only to her closest friends. The posthumous publication of this work led Eugenio Montale to praise Pozzi's desire to reduce the weight of words to the minimum. Her Modernist verse is lyrical and experimental, pastoral and erotic, powerfully evoking the northern Italian landscape and her personal tragedies amid the repressive climate of Fascism. Breath contains a representative selection of Pozzi's poems in an Italian/ English bilingual format along with a number of her letters. In an introductory essay, editor-translator Lawrence Venuti documents her tormented life, considers her sophisticated thinking about her writing, and sketches the rich literary traditions that she inherited, creating a detailed context in which her poems can be more fully appreciated. The translations affiliate Pozzi's poetry with the work of comparable English-language writers such as H.D., Mina Loy, and Lorine Niedecker, establishing in translation what Pozzi lacked in Italian: a tradition of Modernist women's poetries.

CONTRIBUTORS: Lawrence Venuti.

Language: English

Pages: 224

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Release: October 01, 2002

ISBN: 081956544X

ISBN 13: 9780819565440

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