Impromptu: A Trilingual Edition

Amelia Rosselli, Gian Maria Annovi (Translator), Diana Thow (Translator) and Jean-Charles Vegliante (Translator)

Guernica Editions, Fall 2014

104 pages

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781771830232

ISBN10: 1771830239

English, French

Translated from the Italian

$20.00 Canada, $20.00 US

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This is a trilingual -- Italian, English and French -- edition of Amelia Rosselli's last original collection of poetry in Italian. Written in 1979, Impromptu, as the title suggests, came about in a burst of creativity following a long period of silence and mental illness. Impromptu is a long poem of more than 350 lines divided into 13 sections.

Earth was cleaned like / a toad picking a fight / distinguished by its captivating / bite.

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