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Here and Not Elsewhere: Selected Poems: 1990-2010 (Kindle)
Pietro De Marchi and Marco Sonzogni (Translator)
Guernica Editions, Spring 2013
132 pages
Kindle (eBook)
ISBN13: 9781550716597
ISBN10: 155071659X
English, Italian
Translated from the Italian
$7.95 Canada, $7.95 US
The poems that follow -- selected by the poet himself from published as well as unpublished or uncollected work -- represent the variety of De Marchi's poetry. This is a poet who speaks clearly, who does not indulge in half-hearted exchanges, and who is willing to read between the lines. This is a poet who relishes the here and now and the epiphany possible in every moment -- a poet who is therefore ready to seize and share what is here and not elsewhere.
He runs a pin through the insect/ newly caught,/ then further down/ he sticks a label/ with its name and other facts./ Thus -- bless him --/ he abridges the gulf between/ words and things.
De Marchi’s poetry charts the journey of a poetic quest that, on the strengths of destinations already reached, continues to explore the world, indicating new directions to follow.
Fabio Pusterla
De Marchi’s is a poetry of suspended time, where nothing interferes with a world that seems intent on listening to itself, with no material concerns; where the soul seems to expand into all that we look at and are looked by, in a sort of strange holiday.
Giorgio Orelli
Books by Pietro De Marchi
Books by Marco Sonzogni
