The renowned Italian poet Valerio Magrelli has forged a unique approach for exploring the subtleties of language, a poetry of perception that takes the measure of its own veerings, “the exact degree / of deviation.” His poems are histories of the inner life that turn into X-rays of the urban and the global, and press the intelligence into the service of the senses. Magrelli’s poems condense the abstract and the intensely physical, subjecting modern experience to a minute and naked scrutiny. Not since Eugenio Montale has a poet brought together in one voice so many strands of the Italian lyric tradition and handled them with such originality.
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“Magrelli’s poetry is a soliloquy written with a pencil and small notebook, during the deepest and most silent hours of the night. It is a poetry that looks at itself, but at the sight of itself vanishes.” —Octavio Paz
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Valerio Magrelli was born in Rome. He has published critical works on Dadaism and Paul Valéry, as well as notable translations of Mallarmé, Verlaine, and Valéry. He is currently working on a study of Baudelaire.
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Not enough attention given to this molecular master,
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Valerio Magrelli, though given the vocal attention of some of the best poets of yesteryear and today (Brodsky, Paz, Galazzi) continues to be a largely unknown presence in contemporary American poetry. He is one of the best Italian masters of the "micro" poem, so to speak: his verse is the verse of a man who spent long hours obsessing on the turn of each line, whether it would be graceful or awkward, fluid or stagnant. He looks at poetry with the eyes of a physicist, but unlike Sinisgalli he does not once come across as clinical or detached. My favorite in this collection: "If I have to use digits to call you, you undergo a transformation into digits, your lineaments mutate to the number that gets through to you. The double three, then the nine that comes third, recall something in your face. When in search of you I have to draw up your figure, I have to spawn the seven ciphers that are analogues of your name until the combination safe of your living voice unlocks itself." "Antaura" Barring the great Charles Simic, I see no one who can pull that off in contemporary poetry--he should be a household name, and NOT as a Language poet. Absolutely recommended.
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great book,wonderful short and simple poems rich with depth of commonsense.i love his poems and would recommend to anyone who reads and write poems.
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