Trivia Thief: Selected Poems

Alberto Nessi and Marco Sonzogni (Translator)

Guernica Editions, Fall 2011

149 pages

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550713510

ISBN10: 1550713515

English, Italian

Translated from the Italian

$15.00 Canada, $15.00 US

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Alberto Nessi's … strength as a poet rests with his own distinctive and daring language -- a spirit level that enables him always to align himself with the subject of his verse. And, if his work is the product of a rational and realistic pessimism -- occasionally softened by irony, it is also true that Nessi's emotional and ethical empathy deepens his analysis and heightens his response. -- Marco Sonzogni

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