Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by Paul Vangelisti. AS IF IT WERE A RHYTHM is the first book-length selection of Porta published in the United States. The poems in this volume were selected from Aprire (1964), Cara (1969), and Weekend (1974).
Author City: MILAN ITA
Antonio Porta, pseudonym of Leo Paolazzi, was born in Vicenza in 1935, but lived in Milan most of his life. In addition to his noteworthy career as a member of the Italian Neo-Avant-garde, specifically a founding member of Gruppo 63 and the Novissimi, he wrote literary criticism for various newspapers and magazines, and taught literature at the Università di Bologna, the Università di Pavia and the Università di Roma, La Sapienza, as well as Yale University. He died of a heart attack in Milan in 1989.