Full Description
This selection is drawn from six collections spanning Pusterla's poetry career from 1985 to 2011. There is a spareness and austerity about his poetry - born of the age-old struggle with the harsh environment of the Swiss Alps. The natural world clearly matters a great deal to Pusterla, as does family life, and occasionally the veil of everyday reality is lifted to reveal moments of pure happiness and exuberance.
With an Introduction by Alan Brownjohn.
Fabio Pusterla was born in 1957. For his work, widely translated, he has been awarded the Premio Montale (1986), the Schiller Prize (1986, 2000 and 2011), the Premio Dessì (2009) and the Premio Lionello Fiumi (2008, 2010), the Premio Prezzolini for translation (1994), the Premio Marazza (2009) and, in 2007, the Gottfried Keller Prize. He teaches Italian literature in Lugano.
Simon Knight specialises in writers from Italian-speaking Switzerland and is currently translating Il fondo del sacco (1970) by Plinio Martini.
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
