Hospital Series
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Description
Hospital Series, a bruisingly intimate colloquy with an elusive lover, is Italian poet Amelia Rosselli's virtuoso, subversive, neo-Petrarchan sequence of poems. Rosselli wrote much of the series in the mid 1960s after being hospitalized for a mental illness she suffered from for most of her life, and whose pain shapes her language and difficult vision. These explosive poems, a furious cacophonic crescendo of semantic and syntactic accumulations deeply admired by Pier Paolo Pasolini, place Rosselli among the greatest writers of her generation.
Product Details
| Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Publish Date | April 07, 2015 |
| Pages | 64 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780811223973 |
| Dimensions | 8.7 X 5.8 X 1.3 inches | 0.3 pounds |
About the Author
The daughter of a martyred antifascist philosopher, Amelia Rosselli was born in Paris in 1930, grew up in England and New York, settling in Italy, first in Florence and then in Rome, only after the war. In 1996, she took her own life. A trilingual writer who described herself as "a poet of exploration," Rosselli was also a translator (Emily Dickinson among others), musician, and musicologist, and the author of eight collections of poetry.
DEBORAH WOODARD is a poet and translator living in Seattle.
Roberta Antognini is an Associate Professor of Italian and Chair of Italian at Vasser College.
Giuseppe Leporace is a senior lecturer of Italian at the University of Washington.
Reviews
What Rosselli expresses in these texts - so skillfully transferred by Antagonini et al - is an often-wrenching cri de coeur situating a continuum of affectivity. Rosselli and her translators seem engaged in a "union/ of two souls one tarantella," and these English-language versions move across vistas of love and despair and hope and insanity, in a dance toward newer orders of weird reckoning.--Dan Disney "Shearsman"
A luxurient, floral oasis at the margins of dominion.--Pier Paolo Pasolini
A luxurient, floral oasis at the margins of dominion.--Pier Paolo Pasolini
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