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For the Baptism of Our Fragments
Mario Luzi and Luigi Bonaffini (Translator)
Guernica Editions, Fall 1992
190 pages
Mass Market
ISBN13: 9780920717554
ISBN10: 0920717551
English
Translated from the Italian
$15.00 Canada, $15.00 US
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Described as the most "conspicuous voice in Italian poetry after Eugenio Montale," Mario Luzi created for himself an unmistakably individual rhythm, idiom, and ethos ... Particular to Luzi's poetry is the quality of lyricism, and tone of conversational intimacy, of which For the Baptism of Our Fragments represents the crowing achievement of a long poetic career which began with his first book of poems in 1935. -- G. Singh, World Literature Today
What rest? what stone/ on which to lay one's head? Nothing,/ there is no such stone, there is no place/ where you can stay. You must/ be. Be always
Described as the most "conspicuous voice in Italian poetry after Eugenio Montale," Mario Luzi created for himself an unmistakably individual rhythm, idiom, and ethos ... Particular to Luzi's poetry is the quality of lyricism, and tone of conversational intimacy, of which For the Baptism of Our Fragments (1985) represents the crowning achievement of a long poetic career which began with his first book of poems in 1935.
G. Singh, World Literature Today
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