Join us at the IIC for a conversation on contemporary Italian poetry.
Edited by Luigi Ballerini and Beppe Cavatorta, Those Who From Afar Look Like Flies provides an organic profile of the evolution of Italian poetry after World War II, from Pasolini to the present days. This groundbreaking anthology of poems and essays is a formidable resource that allowed English speakers to access and engage with previously untranslated contemporary Italian poetry. The anthology is organised chronologically, and each section opens with an introductory note that discusses stylistic developments in the poetics of a particular group, movement, or individual. A short biography and bibliography for each poet, critic, and translator is also provided.
Luigi Ballerini has taught Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature at New York University (1984-1990) and the University of California at Los Angeles (1991-2010). The author of numerous essays on Italian Futurism, avant-garde literature and poetry, medieval poetry, historical gastronomy, and contemporary sculpture, he has also edited several bilingual anthologies of Italian and American poetry and translated into Italian a variety of American authors ranging from Melville to William Carlos Williams and Gertrude Stein.
Beppe Cavatorta is an Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Arizona. His research interests include experimental writings, Italian futurism and the neo-avant-garde, the Second World War in literature and film, and the theory and practice of translation. He has published several essays and anthologies on Italian and American poetry. His research interests are varied, with scholarly publications on the writings of Machiavelli, Savonarola, and Tasso in the Renaissance period and, Alberto Savinio, Antonio Delfini, Tahar Lamri and Adriano Spatola in the Twentieth Century.
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