Collected poems of a passionate and sometimes blasphemous author tormented by his search for love, self and God. A phantamagoria of nocturnal visions, mythic quest and sexual obsession. English translations from the Maltese, with a preface and afterword by the translator, and a brief essay on Malta, its language and literature by Joe Felice Pace. Illustrated with 13 fantastic line drawings by Thomas Cassidy.
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"... Azzopardi's poems speak forcefully about Malta's history and independence as a culture." -- L'Italo Americano, November 1998 (reviewed by Kenneth Scambray)
"In Malta the catchphrase associated with Mario Azzopardi--poet, teacher of literature and drama producer- -is enfant terrible." -- WORLD LITERATURE TODAY, winter 1997
"Naked As Water is a very exotic volume... The poems themselves are a studied primitivism filled with the primal reality of sea, sun and moon, but always with a sophisticated awareness of the 'isms' of twentieth-century art and literature. This is a very valuable book out of one last minority world of Europe that demands its place on the literary map." -- SMALL PRESS REVIEW, Nov. 1996
"In Malta the catchphrase associated with Mario Azzopardi--poet, teacher of literature and drama producer- -is enfant terrible." -- WORLD LITERATURE TODAY, winter 1997
"Naked As Water is a very exotic volume... The poems themselves are a studied primitivism filled with the primal reality of sea, sun and moon, but always with a sophisticated awareness of the 'isms' of twentieth-century art and literature. This is a very valuable book out of one last minority world of Europe that demands its place on the literary map." -- SMALL PRESS REVIEW, Nov. 1996
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This review is from: Naked As Water: Poems by Mario Azzopardi (Hardcover)
NAKED AS WATER is a very exotic volume, a translation by Grazio Falzon of the work of Mario Azzopardi, a contemporary Maltese who writes in Maltese, a language which is a rare blend of Arabic and Italian/Sicilian.
The poems themselves are a studied primitivism filled with the primal reality of sea, sun and moon but always with a sophisticated awareness of the "isms" of 20th century art and literature. Or is it possible that this meditation on the nature of time is independent of any referencing back to Dali? -----
"Time is flat/
minute hands roll down stunned/
dripping anstractions..."
( "Suite 345" p. 26 )
(HUGH FOX - Small Press Review, Nov. 1996)
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