Air and Memory

Franco Loi

ISBN 10: 193399603X / ISBN 13: 9781933996035

Published by Counterpath Press, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Air and Memory
• Publisher: Counterpath Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193399603X
• ISBN 13: 9781933996035
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Poetry. Translated from the Italian by Andrew Frisardi. After World War II dialect poetry became widespread in Italy, withthe Milanese poet Franco Loi being one of its most prominent and masterful practitioners. In the 1970s, a leading critic called Loi "the most powerful poetic personality of recent years," and since then Loi has been considered one of the most distinguished living Italian poets. The present volume, translated and edited by Andrew Frisardi, provides a selection of Loi's shorter lyrical poems, drawn from the full span of his career, as well as an extraordinary interview with Loi in which he discusses poetry, religion, politics, writing in dialect, and the shaping experience of living through wartime Milan.

About the Author

Franco Loi was born in Genoa in 1930, but grew up in a working-class area of Milan, where his family moved in 1937. He has lived in Milan ever since. Throughout the late 1940s and the 1950s, Loi worked at the loading docks at Lambrate and Rinascente, in the industrial area of Milan, an experience that greatly affected his politics and writing. He worked at the Milan publishing house Mondadori from 1960 to 1983. Since 1987 he has been a frequent contributor of essays and reviews on poetry to many publications, including bimonthly articles for the Sunday cultural supplement of the national newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. He has published numerous books of poetry, most recently his selected poems, Aria de la memoria, published by Einaudi in 2005, and has been translated into several European languages as well as into Arabic. In 2005 he was awarded the prestigious Premio Librex-Montale.

Andrew Frisardi is the author of Death of a Dissembler (poems, 2014), The Young Dante and the One Love (essays, 2013), and The Quest for Knowledge in Dante's Convivio (essays, 2015); the translator of various volumes from Italian, including an annotated edition of Dante's Vita Nova (2012); and the editor of Daily Bread: Art and Work in the Reign of Quantity (2015), a collection of essays by Brian Keeble. His awards include a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, a Hawthornden Literary Fellowship, and the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. Originally from Boston, he lives in central Italy.