Haiku for a Season / Haiku per una stagione Paperback / softback
by Andrea Zanzotto
Edited by Anna Secco, Patrick Barron
Paperback / softback
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Andrea Zanzotto is one of the most important and acclaimed poets of postwar Italy.
This collection of ninety-one pseudo-haiku in English and Italian - written over several months during 1984 and then revised slowly over the years - confirms his commitment to experimentation throughout his life. "Haiku for a Season" represents a multilevel experiment for Zanzotto: first, to compose poetry bilingually; and second, to write in a form foreign to Western poetry.
The volume traces the life of a woman from youth to adulthood, using the seasons and the varying landscape as a mirror to reflect her growth and changing attitudes and perceptions.
With a lifelong interest in the intersections of nature and culture, Zanzotto displays here his usual precise and surprising sense of the living world.
These never-before-published original poems in English appear alongside their Italian versions - not strict translations but parallel texts that can be read separately or in conjunction with the originals.
As a sequence of interlinked poems, "Haiku for a Season" also reveals Zanzotto as a master poet of minimalism. Zanzotto's recent death is a blow to world poetry, and the publication of this book, the last that he approved in manuscript, will be an event in both the United States and in Italy.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:120 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:27/10/2012
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- ISBN:9780226922218
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:120 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:27/10/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226922218