Three Stills in a Frame: Selected Poems, 1986-2014 by Giorgio Linguaglossa
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Three Stills in a Frame: Selected Poems, 1986-2014


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Poetry. Translated from the Italian by Steven Grieco. Bilingual Edition. Preface by Andrej Silkin. The title poem of the Chelsea edition, Tre fotogrammi dentro la cornice / Three Stills in a Frame, was composed over a period of twenty years, from 1992- 2013. The seven-page poetic narrative begins in the 1930s with the rise of Mussolini, before the poet's birth, and jumps to a photo of the poet's mother in the 1950s; the description of her room and the snowy world outside her window expands to encompass the decade, then other photos open up frames in his mind, mixing events, historic figures and his life in the twentieth century, leading to his mock Hamletish funeral in the new century. Hamlet inspires much of the poetry in Linguaglossa's first collection of 1988, Atirev (L'Anagramma della Verità) / Atirev (The Anagram of Verità). The second collection from 1989, Blumenbilder (Natura morta con fiori), has much to do with faces, portraits, classic art. The third, Uccelli / Birds, published in 1992, not only speaks of birds, but also of the wings of angels and the dust of kings of the past. The fourth, Paradiso / Paradise (2000) introduces the conversations of dark angels brooding over nihilistic doctrines of ancient Greek philosophers. These obscure Greek philosophers debate haughtily in the fifth volume: La Belligeranza del Tramonto / The Belligerence of Sunset (2006); while in the next, Girone dei Morti Assiderati / The Circle of the Frozen Dead (2013), gondoliers sing as they transport souls and shadows of living dead on the Styx. The last volume, Riposta al Signor Cogito di Zbigniew Herbert / Reply to Zbigniew Herbert's Mister Cogito (2014), places the morally certain Mr. Cogito in an ambiguous surrealist setting with different times, historical figures and secret police searching for a little black notebook with all the answers.

The poet writes in an age when all the great poetic effects, lyric emotions and inspiring messages have already been expressed, and therefore Linguaglossa employs a plain-talk approach, shunning metaphors, pathos and grand conclusions, yet often rises to a high style with mythic breadth, uncommon imagery and weighty concepts. He does not try to save the failed and decadent world deprived of meaning, but rather opts for a poetry that turns the present into a launchpad to the future: a Dantesque poetry, constructed out of fragments of images and metaphors, absolutely felicitous in terms of expression. To heal the fragmented, this is Linguaglossa's intention. The overall meaning, the final summa, is not stated, but peeks out from the detail: 'the reader is expected to seek it out for himself and recognize it for what it is.'--Andrej Silkin, from the Preface


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780986106118
  • Publisher: Chelsea Editions
  • Publisher Imprint: Chelsea Editions
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 750 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0986106119
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 222 mm
  • No of Pages: 317
  • Sub Title: Selected Poems 1986-2014
  • Width: 152 mm


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