The Collected Poems of Lucio Piccolo (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)

Piccolo, Lucio

ISBN 10: 0691062277 / ISBN 13: 9780691062273

Published by Princeton University Press, 1973

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collected Poems of Lucio Piccolo (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691062277
• ISBN 13: 9780691062273
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

"In Piccolo's poems we meet a Sicily latent in the country of the tourist guides and the history books, but it was Piccolo far more than, say, his cousin Lampedusa, who was destined to draw out the latencies, read the signatures, crack the code....These brilliant translations will serve to introduce a whole new sensibility to Anglo-American readers."―Anthony Burgess

"Faithfulness, a loving adherence, a communion with and an entering into the spirit of the original are what we look for in a translation. We find these qualities abundantly in this rendering of Lucio Piccolo's poetry by Brian Swarm and Ruth Feldman. And we find yet more: a welcome clarification, for though Piccolo's poetry―one that tries to capture in a subtle web the atmosphere of a bygone world―is not obscure or oblique, yet, like all significant poetry, it is here and there open to a number of interpretations. Swann's and Feldman's translation, or interpretation, seems to me always felicitous and intelligent."―Arturo Vivante

Originally published in 1973.

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About the Author

Brian Swann has published many books: poetry in translation, children's books, fiction, poetry, as well as editing volumes on Native American literature, the latest of which is Sky Loom: Native American Myth, Story, Song (University of Nebraska Press, 2014). His most recent of eleven poetry collections is In Late Light (John Hopkins University Press, 2013). He teaches at The Cooper Union in New York City.