Full Description
This selection is drawn from six collections which span Pusterla's poetic career from 1985 to 2011. Pusterla's themes are many and varied, and there is a spareness and austerity about his poetry - which one feels is more 'Alpine' than Swiss - born of the age-old struggle with a harsh natural environment.
Contents
Translator's Preface / 10 , Introduction / 13, FROM Concession to Winter, Parentheses / 21,Paradiso, Cavallino / 21, The Dodo / 23, from Bocksten, The Eel of the Rhine / 25, from Things with no Past , Claudia and Nina Sleeping / 27, Buried in the Garden / 27, Notice to Quit: Three Fragments / 33, Landscape / 35, Snowing (or Writing in Winter) / 39, Crocuses at Evolene / 39, The Drowned Woman / 39, Crespi d'Adda / 41, Landscape with Moira Writing / 43, The Blackbird / 45, Breaking Surface / 45, Vatel / 49 from Pietra sangue :The Two Adversaries / 53, Drainage Canal / 55, The Spendthrift Takes Stock / 57, To Those Who Come After / 57, Bois de la folie / 58, Descending and Ascending: the Stairways of Albogasio / 63, Tremor / 67 from Submerged Multitude :Untitled / 73, Two Herons / 73, Submerged Multitude / 77, First Strawberries / 79, Without Images / 81, Letter from Nikolajevka / 81, Deposition / 83, Last Judgement / 85 , Displaced Swarm / 85, Concomitances / 87, Days Full of Caves and Tigers / 89, Thirty Years On / 91, Moving On / 93 from Corpo stellare: On Tiny Wings / 97, April 2006. Postcards of Italy / 97, Letters from Babel / 105, Prospect Hill / 109, Stories of the Armadillo / 111, Notes / 124, Biographical Notes / 127
