{"product_id":"haiku-for-a-seasonhaiku-per-andrea-zanzotto-9780226922218","title":"Haiku for a Season\/Haiku Per Una Stagione","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndrea Zanzotto is one of the most important and acclaimed poets of postwar Italy. This collection of ninety-one pseudo-haiku in English and Italian--written over several months during 1984 and then revised slowly over the years--confirms his commitment to experimentation throughout his life. \u003ci\u003eHaiku for a Season\u003c\/i\u003e represents a multilevel experiment for Zanzotto: first, to compose poetry bilingually; and second, to write in a form foreign to Western poetry. The volume traces the life of a woman from youth to adulthood, using the seasons and the varying landscape as a mirror to reflect her growth and changing attitudes and perceptions. With a lifelong interest in the intersections of nature and culture, Zanzotto displays here his usual precise and surprising sense of the living world. These never-before-published original poems in English appear alongside their Italian versions--not strict translations but parallel texts that can be read separately or in conjunction with the originals. As a sequence of interlinked poems, \u003ci\u003eHaiku for a Season\u003c\/i\u003e reveals Zanzotto also as a master poet of minimalism. Zanzotto's recent death is a blow to world poetry, and the publication of this book, the last that he approved in manuscript, will be an event in both the United States and in Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrea Zanzotto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226922219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226922218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/27\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.50d","brand":"Andrea Zanzotto","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086429565183,"sku":"9780226922218","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dab0b909-1c09-4caf-b662-32f097e91d30.jpg?v=1769094623","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/haiku-for-a-seasonhaiku-per-andrea-zanzotto-9780226922218","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}