| Author/Contributor(s): | Magrelli, Valerio ; McKendrick, Jamie |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl |
| Date: | 08/02/2011 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
The renowned Italian poet Valerio Magrelli has forged a unique approach for exploring the subtleties of language, a poetry of perception that takes the measure of its own veerings, "the exact degree / of deviation." His poems are histories of the inner life that turn into X-rays of the urban and the global, and press the intelligence into the service of the senses. Magrelli's poems condense the abstract and the intensely physical, subjecting modern experience to a minute and naked scrutiny. Not since Eugenio Montale has a poet brought together in one voice so many strands of the Italian lyric tradition and handled them with such originality.