Portraits of Absence: Volume 39 by Alborghetti, Fabiano

Portraits of Absence: Volume 39 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781771832007)

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Portraits of Absence: Volume 39 by Alborghetti, Fabiano

Portraits of Absence: Volume 39

$20.00
Portraits of Absence: Volume 39 by Alborghetti, Fabiano

Portraits of Absence: Volume 39

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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Portraits of Absence is poetry of witness, of unflinching eyewitness accounts of atrocities--the devil's definition of humanity. Fabiano Alborghetti's words, unfolding with machine-gun hiccoughs and staccato rhythms, spaces where the dead drop and the living fall, weeping, are tactile, palpable, sonnets of wreckage and ruin. Consider him a 21st-century Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon, with even less reticence before Horror than either of those Great War Poets. Alborghetti is an essential voice, a cry out-of-the-wilderness of our own bad, mad, sad hearts. We are lucky to have such a courageous Cassandra; we are damned that he has so much Terror to report to us. These are magnificent, impressive lyrics, unforgettable in their heart-tearing, barbed-wire-laced, gung-ho Sorrow.--George Elliott Clarke, Parliamentary/Canadian Poet Laureate (2016-17)



Author: Fabiano Alborghetti
ISBN-10: 1771832002
ISBN-13: 9781771832007
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2017
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.40d
By Fabiano Alborghetti
By Fabiano Alborghetti
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Fabiano Alborghetti (1970) is the author of Verso Buda (2004), L'opposta riva (2006; 2013), Registro dei fragili, 43 Canti (2009) as well as numerous limited editions and plaquettes. His poems have been translated into over a dozen languages. He has represented Canton Ticino, the Italian speaking region of Switzerland where he lives, at literary festivals and cultural events worldwide.

Marco Sonzogni is Senior Lecturer in Italian at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has been the recipient of several translation awards, including the Looren Translation Grant and the Pro Helvetia Translation Grant, in recognition of published translations as well as on the merits of an ongoing translation projects (Oliver Scharpf, Alberto Nessi, Pietro de Marchi).

A Lecturer in the Spanish Programme of the School of Languages and Cultures at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, translator Ross Woods specializes in post-Civil War Spanish literature, with a particular focus on the theme of memory in the poetry of José Manuel Caballero Bonald. Among his publications: Understanding the Poetry of Jose Manuel Caballero Bonald: The Function of Memory in a Spanish Writer's Art (2012) and Revisiting the Past: Memory and Trauma in the Postwar Spanish Novel, (eds. Sarah Leggott and Ross Woods, 2013).

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