My Life, I Lapped It Up (Field Translation) - Softcover

Sanguineti, Edoardo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997335548 ISBN 13: 9780997335545

Publisher: Oberlin College Press, 2018

Synopsis

One of the most remarkable modern European poets is now available in English for the first time. My Life, I Lapped It Up is the first comprehensive English translation of one of postwar Italy’s most important poets. Edoardo Sanguineti (1930-2010) is best known as an influential member of the Italian intellectual avant-garde that rose to prominence in the 1960s. During his 60-year career, he published more than 20 volumes of poetry, as well as librettos, novels, plays, books of literary and social criticism, and translations. This collection highlights his most psychologically probing and approachable poems, featuring work from his mid and late career.

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Genoese poet EDOARDO SANGUINETI (1930–2010) is best known as an influential member of the intellectual avant-garde in Italy who rose to prominence in the 1960s after helping found Gruppo ’63, a literary movement that sought a radical break from the confo

Review

“Edoardo Sanguineti remains as contemporary in 2018 as he was in 1963. The voice is funny, gruesome, coy, and tender, as he navigates the settings and languages of Berlin, Rotterdam, Turin, Vr ac, Madrid, Munich, and elsewhere with ‘the impatience that is [his] genius.’ The tongue-tip pleasure of the original Italian is everywhere apparent in Will Schutt’s English: ‘a vintner’s gizmos,’ ‘a total sexy-booze and -schmooze,’ ‘the muscle-mush of tourists.’ Schutt’s translations convey the soundplay and sophistication of a major modern Italian author, elegantly recreating the invention and pathos for which Sanguineti is revered.” (Taije Silverman)

“One of the marks of a skillful translation, particularly of poetry in translation, is that the reader, reading along, simply forgets that it’s a translation. In My Life, I Lapped It Up, Will Schutt has achieved this end. Using a poet’s focus on sound and language, Schutt brings us (preserving parentheticals and the linguistic mash-up of the original) the wordplay, the anarchy, the skip and scrabble of Sanguineti. The speaker avers that ‘the Aeolian harps do not play for you,’ but I’d beg to differ. ‘Let’s talk, please, about life’s pleasures’: ‘to sleep in the sun ... to drink wine (French, if possible...)’—to find an important Italian poet rightfully rendered into spiky, readable, pleasurable poems in English.” (Moira Egan)

About this edition

• Publisher: Oberlin College Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0997335548
• ISBN 13: 9780997335545
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 104