Poetry. In his introduction, Strang writes, These cavatinas are improvisations on the poetry of Guido Cavalcanti (1250-1300), contemporary and friend of Dante Alighieri and the subject of much study and translation by Ezra Pound. Deliberately unfaithful to the originals, I mistranslated from the Italian, a language of which I have, unfortunately, severely limited knowledge. A bright, lyric quality pervades these poems. Brian Strang lives in San Francisco.

Author City: OAKLAND, CA USA

Brian Strang lives in East Oakland and teaches English composition at San Francisco State University and Merritt College. He is the author of INCRETION (Sputyen Duyvil) and MACHINATIONS (a free Duration ebook) and several chapbooks. His poems, reviews, essays and translations have appeared in many journals including NEW AMERICAN WRITING, Five Fingers Review, DENVER QUARTERLY and Ur-Vox. Recently, his poetry appeared in translation in the Portuguese journal DiVersos.