The Man I Pretend to Be: The Colloquies and Selected Poems of Guido Gozzano

GOZZANO, Guido. Translated and Edited by Michael Palma

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ISBN 10: 0691013780 ISBN 13: 9780691013787

Published by Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1981

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First edition. Trade paperback. 254pp. Introductory essay by Eugenio Montale. Fine in glossy wrappers. Warmly Inscribed by the editor Michael Palma to fellow poet Daniel Hoffman.

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Title

The Man I Pretend to Be: The Colloquies and Selected Poems of Guido Gozzano

Publisher

Princeton University Press, New Jersey

Publication Date

1981

ISBN 10

0691013780

ISBN 13

9780691013787

Binding

Softcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Fine

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Translated here in a bilingual edition is Gozzano's best and best-known collection of poems, The Colloquies, along with a selection of his other poems. Also included is an introductory essay by Eugenio Montale, the Italian poet and winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Originally published in 1981.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Michael Palma is the recipient of the Italo Calvino Award for his translation of My Name on the Wind: Selected Poems of Diego Valeri and of the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award from the American Academy of American Poets for his translation of The Man I Pretend to Be: The Colloquies and Selected Poems of Guido Gozzano. A poet in his own right, Palma has published three collections of verse, and his poetry has been anthologized in, among other publications, Penguin s Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry.

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