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Hospital Series
Amelia Rosselli
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Description for Hospital Series
Paperback. Translator(s): Woodard, Deborah; Antognini, Roberta; Leporace, Giuseppe. Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 120.
Hospital Series, a bruisingly intimate colloquy with an elusive lover, is Italian poet Amelia Rosselli’s virtuoso, subversive, neo-Petrarchan sequence of poems. Rosselli wrote much of the series in the mid 1960s after being hospitalized for a mental illness she suffered from for most of her life, and whose pain shapes her language and difficult vision. These explosive poems, a furious cacophonic crescendo of semantic and syntactic accumulations deeply admired by Pier Paolo Pasolini, place Rosselli among the greatest writers of her generation.
Hospital Series, a bruisingly intimate colloquy with an elusive lover, is Italian poet Amelia Rosselli’s virtuoso, subversive, neo-Petrarchan sequence of poems. Rosselli wrote much of the series in the mid 1960s after being hospitalized for a mental illness she suffered from for most of her life, and whose pain shapes her language and difficult vision. These explosive poems, a furious cacophonic crescendo of semantic and syntactic accumulations deeply admired by Pier Paolo Pasolini, place Rosselli among the greatest writers of her generation.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Series
New Directions Poetry Pamphlets
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811223973
SKU
V9780811223973
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About Amelia Rosselli
The daughter of a martyred antifascist philosopher, Amelia Rosselli was born in Paris in 1930, grew up in England and New York, settling in Italy, first in Florence and then in Rome, only after the war. In 1996, she took her own life. A trilingual writer who described herself as “a poet of exploration,” Rosselli was also a translator (Emily ... Read more
Reviews for Hospital Series
"A luxurient, floral oasis at the margins of dominion."
Pier Paolo Pasolini "What Rosselli expresses in these texts – so skillfully transferred by Antagonini et al – is an often-wrenching cri de coeur situating a continuum of affectivity. Rosselli and her translators seem engaged in a “union/ of two souls one tarantella,” and these English-language versions move across vistas ... Read more
Pier Paolo Pasolini "What Rosselli expresses in these texts – so skillfully transferred by Antagonini et al – is an often-wrenching cri de coeur situating a continuum of affectivity. Rosselli and her translators seem engaged in a “union/ of two souls one tarantella,” and these English-language versions move across vistas ... Read more