Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by Emmanuel Pasquale. The deeply subtle, psychological poems of Buffoni are best quoted: "Once upon a non-time/ I lacked patience with lying children:/ transparency and loyalty fed/ unconditional love/ otherwise no way/ and I restarted from scrap./ Now I save my words I don't waste a glance/ I carefully keep the small rubber band/ the string the clipping;/ I even reassemble truthful puzzles of lies."
Author City: Rome ITA
Franco Buffoni is a professor of literary criticism and comparative literature. His books of poetry include Songs of Spring (1999), The Shadow of Mount Rosa (2002) and Guerra (2005), all prizewinners. As a translator, he has edited I Poeti Romantici Inglesi.
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