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Breath: Poems and Letters
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Wesleyan Univ Pr
Publication date October 1, 2002
Pages 224
Binding Hardcover
Edition Bilingual
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780819565433
ISBN-10 0819565431
Dimensions 1 by 5.75 by 9.25 in.
Weight 1.15 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $40.00
Other format details university press
§As reported by publisher
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: At the start of a promising career, Antonia Pozzi (1912-1938) committed suicide, leaving behind several hundred poems known only to her closest friends. The posthumous publication of this work led Eugenio Montale to praise Pozzi's "desire to reduce the weight of words to the minimum." Her Modernist verse is lyrical and experimental, pastoral and erotic, powerfully evoking the northern Italian landscape and her personal tragedies amid the repressive climate of Fascism. Breath contains a representative selection of Pozzi's poems in an Italian/ English bilingual format along with a number of her letters. In an introductory essay, editor-translator Lawrence Venuti documents her tormented life, considers her sophisticated thinking about her writing, and sketches the rich literary traditions that she inherited, creating a detailed context in which her poems can be more fully appreciated. The translations affiliate Pozzi's poetry with the work of comparable English-language writers such as H.D., Mina Loy, and Lorine Niedecker, establishing in translation what Pozzi lacked in Italian: a tradition of Modernist women's poetries. CONTRIBUTORS: Lawrence Venuti.

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9780819565433 | details & prices | 224 pages | 5.75 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $40.00
About: At the start of a promising career, Antonia Pozzi (1912-1938) committed suicide, leaving behind several hundred poems known only to her closest friends.

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