Orphic Songs (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) [Paperback]

Dino Campana (Author), Isidore Lawrence Salomon (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2001 | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series (Book 54)

Dino Campana wrote the unique, visionary masterwork of Italian literature Orphic Songs when he was in his twenties. The originality, rapturous language, and strange beauty of his poetry make him as important to twentieth-century poetry as García Lorca or Mayakovsky. Campana was the wild man of Italian poetry in 1914, on the eve of World War I. The war saved some young Italians from rebellion and from Fascism, but not Campana. Always an outsider, he was a vagabond who worked now and then as a gaucho, miner, fireman, organ-grinder, janitor, circus tumbler, horse groomer, and a wandering musician with a Gypsy band. He died in Castel Pulci, a psychiatric hospital, in 1932.

Editorial Reviews

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Barbaric Sword
Boboli
Bouenos Aires
The Creation
Dream In Prison
Dualism (open Letter To Manuelita Etchegarray)
Enormous Tomb Of The Sea
Evil And Impetuous Sonnet
Fantasy On A Painting By Ardengo Soffici
Fatuous Florence
The Fiery Train On The Tawny Pampas
Four Lyrics For Sibilla Aleramo: Blond Ceres
Four Lyrics For Sibilla Aleramo: Journey We Call Love
Four Lyrics For Sibilla Aleramo: Love: A Springtime Evening
Four Lyrics For Sibilla Aleramo: You In Remembrance
Franco-italian Proletarian Song
Genoa
The Glass Window
Hermaphrodite
Hoodlum At Night
I, Nailed To A Boulder
In The Thundering Twilight
Journey To Montevideo
Just A Poem
Man: Fecund Lust And Will
Marradi
Metaphors For A Journey And A Mountain
Mount Verna (diary): 2. Return
Observations: 1
Observations: 2
Old Florence
Oppressive Time
Oscar Wilde At San Miniato
Prospectus Iii
Round Trip: Trolley Ride In America
Runner In Flight
Serenade: Bitter False Melodramatic
Ship On Its Way
Song Of Darkness
A Strange Little Gypsy
This Raging Aridity
Three Florentine Girls Walk
Trembling Of Tombs
The Violent Sounds Of Night
Whore With Iron-gray Eyes
Woman From Genoa
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Language Notes

Text: English, Italian (translation)
Original Language: Italian

Product Details

• Paperback: 183 pages
• Publisher: City Lights Publishers (January 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0872863409
• ISBN-13: 978-0872863408
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,703,637 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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