Poetry. Translated from the Italian by Gail McDowell. Italian poet Tiziano Fratus has published many books of poetry, including Il Molosso and Poema d'un'anima. His poetry has been published in magazines, websites and anthologies, featured in national and international festivals, and translated, published or performed in Portugal, France, Holland, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland and Singapore. A ROOM IN JERUSALEM is his first English translation. Devoid of capitalization and punctuation (except the question mark), this long poem moves easily between both the public and the private spheres. Translator Gail McDowell, through her direct conveyance, has brought both the wildly passionate and simultaneously pensive Italian original to life in English.

Author Hometown: Turin ITA



About the author: Tiziano Fratus is a bergamasc-flemish Match Maker and sometimes Match Seller. His fire has been replicated in North and South America, in Western and Eastern Europe, in South East Asia. He has published ten series of boxes of matches in the country of Pasolini and Caravaggio, seven overseas in Lisbon, Bratislava, Lugano, Brooklyn, Singapore, Edinburgh, Buenos Aires. In 2010 new boxes of his matches will be issued in Brazil, France, Argentina, Spain, Viet Nam and Canada. He lives with four cats at the foot of the Italian Western Alps near two little lakes that in the coldest winters frozen. He direct the activities of the Manifattura Torino Poesia, a factory promoting new flames & verses in the region. CREATURING is the first selection of his poetry for USA readers.