Melusine: A Ballad and a Diary

Antonio Porta and Anthony Molino (Translator)

Guernica Editions, Fall 1992

128 pages

Mass Market

ISBN13: 9780920717585

ISBN10: 0920717586

English, Italian

Translated from the Italian

$15.00 Canada, $15.00 US

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Written towards the end of an ever evolving career in poetic form and political intent, Melusine possesses the urgency of a summary statement concerning life and art … Melusine underscores Porta's rational optimism which advises us to seek always those unimaginable utopias of historical difference lying just beyond the perimeters of readily available romances of the cultural commonplace. -- Kevin Z. Moore

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