Land of Time - Softcover
Selected poems 1972-2003
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About the Author:
LUIGI FONTANELLA, born in Salerno, Italy, earned a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and taught at Columbia, Princeton and Wellesley. He is currently Professor of Italian at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Founder and President of the Italian Poetry Society of America, he is the editor of Gradiva, an international journal of Italian and Italian-American poetry. He has published ten collections of poetry, two books of fiction and seven books of literary criticism.
Review:
Luigi Fontanella's poems are very much in the tradition of what post-Montalean modern Italian verse has come to mean. His search for modernity is twofold: trying to bring the idiom of poetry as close to everyday language whether written or spoken, journalistic or literary as possible; and to objectify one's feelings and thoughts through a profuse multiplicity of details and impressions concerning the world of everyday reality. Whereas verbal experimentalism often taking the form of an astute play on words or the use of technical, scientific words and phrases is the consequence of the first aim, the consequence of the second is a kind of subtly camouflaged autobiography in verse and a search for personal identity. --G. Singh
There's a great freedom of forms and intonations in Luigi Fontanella's poetry He doesn't take a strong formal stand; his poetry entertains moments of nearly proselike colloquial narrative along with moments of powerful lyrical tension. There is a movement of extremes, from powerful tonality to near atonality, and I like this a great deal; it's a stance that very effectively catches the spirit that makes work in poetry possible nowadays. --Giovanni Raboni
Luigi Fontanella moves between countries as an Italian who has lived in the United States for many years but returns very often to his native land. In this collection, he draws on his experience in both countries, and he is also forever moving between past and future, between those people and places of the present and future by whom and in which he will perhaps be best remembered. Fontanella's poetry is rooted in both a profound critical awareness of the labor of poetry, and a wide embrace of life's labors and joys, all of which merge in his 'pure azur memory.' --Rebecca J. West
There's a great freedom of forms and intonations in Luigi Fontanella's poetry He doesn't take a strong formal stand; his poetry entertains moments of nearly proselike colloquial narrative along with moments of powerful lyrical tension. There is a movement of extremes, from powerful tonality to near atonality, and I like this a great deal; it's a stance that very effectively catches the spirit that makes work in poetry possible nowadays. --Giovanni Raboni
Luigi Fontanella moves between countries as an Italian who has lived in the United States for many years but returns very often to his native land. In this collection, he draws on his experience in both countries, and he is also forever moving between past and future, between those people and places of the present and future by whom and in which he will perhaps be best remembered. Fontanella's poetry is rooted in both a profound critical awareness of the labor of poetry, and a wide embrace of life's labors and joys, all of which merge in his 'pure azur memory.' --Rebecca J. West
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- PublisherChelsea Editions
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0972527133
- ISBN 13 9780972527132
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages234
- EditorIrene Marchegiani
- IllustratorFrancis Picabia
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