From Publishers Weekly
Including 25 poets published since 1950, Contemporary Italian Women Poets: A Bilingual Anthology introduces American readers to poetry that, in the words of Luciana Frezza, "won't stop returning." University of Iowa associate professor of Italian Cinzia Sartini Blum and Lara Trubowitz, a lecturer in rhetoric at the Univ. of California at Berkeley, present their own selections and translations of a plethora of poems, with the original a fronte.
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Book Description
Contemporary Italian Women Poets introduces English-reading audiences to the diversity of contemporary women’s poetry published in Italy during the past five decades. It demonstrates the broad range of ways in which Italian women poets have contributed to the field of contemporary literature and to Italian culture in general. The volume includes the work of twenty-five authors from different generations and regions, some with international acclaim, others known primarily to those within women’s literary circles. The poets who appear in
Contemporary Italian Women Poets are: Mariella Bettarini, Cristina Campo, Anna Cascella, Patrizia Cavalli, Elena Clementelli, Rosita Copioli, Biancamaria Frabotta, Luciana Frezza, Vera Gherarducci, Margherita Guidacci, Armanda Guiducci, Jolanda Insana, Vivian Lamarque, Gabriella Leto, Dacia Maraini, Daria Menicanti, Alda Merini, Giulia Niccolai, Luciana Notari, Rossana Ombres, Piera Oppezzo, Amelia Rosselli, Gabriella Sica, Maria Luisa Spaziani, and Patrizia Valduga. Dual-language poetry; includes introduction, notes/bios on the poets, bibliography.
