Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by Ron Banerjee. Edited with an Introduction by Victoria Surliuga. Steeled by war, informed by Darwin and Hobbes and influenced by Rimbaud and Pound, Neri holds that poetry should inform readers about harsh reality and the perennial contest between good and evil, not by expressing feelings, but by crafting precise and truthful depictions. This is a book of short, icy capsules of time in which man, plants and animals struggle for survival.
Author City: Milan ITA
Born in 1927, Giampiero Neri spent his childhood in the midst of World War II, which devastated his family. He began publishing in the 1960s and was quickly recognized as a major exponent of the Milanese school of poetry. He still lives in Milan.