Contemporary Italian Women Poets : A Bilingual Anthology (Italica Press Dual-Language Poetry Series) (People's Place Booklet) (English and Italian Edition) [Paperback]

Cinzia Sartini Blum (Editor), Lara Trubowitz (Editor)

Book Description

Series: People's Place Booklet | Publication Date: July 12, 2001

"Contemporary Italian Women Poets" introduces English-reading audiences to the diversity of contemporary women's poetry in Italy during the past five decades. It includes twenty-five authors whose work has been published since World War II: poets from different generations and regions, some with international acclaim, others known primarily to those within women's literary circles. The poets who appear are: Mariella Bettarini, Gabriella Leto, Cristina Campo, Dacia Maraini, Anna Cascella, Daria Menicanti, Patrizia Cavalli, Alda Merini, Elena Clementelli, Giulia Niccolai, Rosita Copioli, Luciana Notari, Biancamaria Frabotta, Rossana Ombres, Luciana Frezza, Piera Oppezzo, Vera Gherarducci, Amelia Rosselli, Margherita Guidacci, Gabriella Sica, Armanda Guiducci, Maria Luisa Spaziani, Jolanda Insana, Patrizia Valduga, and Vivian Lamarque. Dual-language poetry. Introduction, notes on the poets, bibliography & index of first lines.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Including 25 poets published since 1950, Contemporary Italian Women Poets: A Bilingual Anthology introduces American readers to poetry that, in the words of Luciana Frezza, "won't stop returning." University of Iowa associate professor of Italian Cinzia Sartini Blum and Lara Trubowitz, a lecturer in rhetoric at the Univ. of California at Berkeley, present their own selections and translations of a plethora of poems, with the original a fronte.

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About the Author

Cinzia Sartini Blum is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Iowa. Lara Trubowitz is a lecturer in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.

Product Details

• Paperback: 364 pages
• Publisher: Italica Press (July 12, 2001)
• Language: English, Italian
• ISBN-10: 0934977178
• ISBN-13: 978-0934977173
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,207,998 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)