| Portraits of Absence: Volume 39 Contributor(s): Alborghetti, Fabiano (Author), Sonzogni, Marco (Translator), Woods, Ross (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1771832002 ISBN-13: 9781771832007 Publisher: Guernica Editions OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - Italian |
| Dewey: 851.92 |
| LCCN: 2017936268 |
| Series: Essential Translations |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5" W x 7.9" (0.35 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Portraits of Absence is poetry of witness, of unflinching eyewitness accounts of atrocities--the devil's definition of humanity. Fabiano Alborghetti's words, unfolding with machine-gun hiccoughs and staccato rhythms, spaces where the dead drop and the living fall, weeping, are tactile, palpable, sonnets of wreckage and ruin. Consider him a 21st-century Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon, with even less reticence before Horror than either of those Great War Poets. Alborghetti is an essential voice, a cry out-of-the-wilderness of our own bad, mad, sad hearts. We are lucky to have such a courageous Cassandra; we are damned that he has so much Terror to report to us. These are magnificent, impressive lyrics, unforgettable in their heart-tearing, barbed-wire-laced, gung-ho Sorrow. I am a hindrance, I belong to the nation ... / Stripped of belongings exile illuminated the debris / the back not yet pierced by bullets ... / I am infamy: / marching, departing / head down. - George Elliott Clarke, Parliamentary/Canad |