Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems
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Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems
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Award-winning new translations of a major contemporary Italian poet
Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems collects forty-five poems by Fabio Pusterla, one of the most distinguished Italian-language poets writing today. Born in Switzerland and resident in Italy, Pusterla engages the pressing moral concerns of his age and excavates the hidden realities of our concrete world. These are poems of disquieting Alpine landscapes and rift zones, filled with curious fauna, lanced with troubling memories, built "from the bottom, from the margins, from outside" the mainstream.
Pusterla is the author of eight critically acclaimed books of poetry and has received several major literary prizes. Selected and translated by Will Schutt, himself an award-winning poet, this volume draws from Pusterla's six most recent collections to capture a wide range of the poet's work. With English translations and Italian originals on facing pages, Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems deftly introduces one of Europe's most ambitious, imaginative, and humane poets to English-speaking readers.
Series: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
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Winner of the Joseph Tusiani Italian Translation Prize, this volume is praised by Publishers Weekly for its skilful translation and energetic rendering of Pusterla’s attentive voice, described as "a kindly light in the midst of darkness." David Cooke of The High Window notes the poetry’s consolations despite despair, highlighting Pusterla's defiant and beautifully cadenced language.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780691245102
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 11 April 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Contributors:
- Translated by Will Schutt
- Edited by Will Schutt
- Translated by Will Schutt
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 200
About the Author
Fabio Pusterla is a prolific poet, essayist, and translator, most notably of the work of Philippe Jaccottet. His honors include the Swiss Schiller Prize, the Gottfried Keller-Preis, and the Premio Napoli for lifetime achievement. Will Schutt is the author of Westerly, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, and translator of My Life, I Lapped It Up: Selected Poems of Edoardo Sanguineti, among other works from Italian. For his translations of Fabio Pusterla's poetry he received the Raiziss/de Palchi Award from the Academy of American Poets.
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