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October/November 1989

James Merrill
Joseph Parisi
Giorgio Caproni
Bartolo Cattafi
Patrizia Cavalli

Table of Contents

From this Issue

Poem

Tre poesie inedite/Three Unpublished Poems

Poem

La vita... è ricordarsi di un risveglio/ Life... Is Remembering Having Wakened

Poem

La spiaggia/The Beach

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Table of Contents

Tre poesie inedite / Three Unpublished Poems

Eugenio Montale

Cinque poesie da

Eugenio Montale

Sandro Penna
Vittorio Sereni
Mario Luzi
- Nell'imminenza dei quarant'anni/On Approaching Forty
- Hunt (Tr. by Dana Gioia)

From

Mario Luzi

Giorgio Caproni
- I coltelli / The Knives
- Delizia (e saggezza) del bevitore / Drinker's Delight (And Wisdom)
- Le parole/The Words (Tr. by Michael Palma)
- The Elevator
Franco Fortini
- You Look Out and See (Tr. by W. S. Di Piero)
- One September Night
- The Trees
- 1944-1947
- Dalla Cina/Out of China
Stefano D'arrigo
- Avevi alito, un corpo/You Had Breath, a Body (Tr. by Stephen Sartarelli)
- Tu che nel mondo hai parola ancora/You Who Still Possess Speech
Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Frammento epistolare, al ragazzo Codignola / Part of a Letter to the Codignola Boy
- From Il pianto della scavatrice ("The Lament of the Excavator")
- The Fan
- Flesh and Sky
Bartolo Cattafi
- Mio amore non credere/My Love, Don't Believe
- Questi piccoli uccelli / These Little Birds
- Nella macchia mediterranea/In the Mediterranean Stain (Tr. by Dana Gioia)
Andrea Zanzotto
- L'elegia in petl / The Baby-Talk Elegy
Luciano Erba
- The Forties (Tr. by Charles Wright)
- La Grande Jeanne
- Vanitas Varietatum
Maria Luisa Spaziani
- [Sunday in the provinces] (Tr. by Beverly Allen)
- [Your Life Is a Baby Not Yet Born]
- [Se fosse un mare questo vento immenso]/[If it were a sea, this immense wind]
Giovanni Giudici
- An Evening Like So Many Others (Tr. by Charles Wright)
- Poesie per una voce/Poem for One Voice
- Da La Bovary c'est moi/From Madame Bovary C'est Moi
Giampiero Neri
- Sovrapposizioni / Overlappings
Edoardo Sanguineti
- From Hell's Purgatory
- [Through Hebecrevon, Lessay, Portbail...] (Tr. by Charles Tomlinson)
- [In te dormiva come un fibroma asciutto...]/[He slept in you like a dry fibroma...]
- Da Erotopaegnia/From Erotopaegnia
Carlo Villa
- Cento di questi fogli/One Hundred of These Pages
- Donne/Women (Tr. by Rebecca Messbarger)
Amelia Rosselli
- [In ancient China] (Tr. by Beverly Allen)
- [There's Something like Pain in the Room]
- [I fiori vengono in dono e poi si dilatano]/[The flowers come as gifts]
Giovanni Raboni
- My Daughter's Birthday 1966 (Tr. by David Stivender and J. D. McClatchy)
- Figures in the Park
- Città dall'alto/City from Above
Tiziano Rossi
- Giovani/Youth
- Inviolate (Tr. by Michael Palma)
Rodolfo Di Biasio
- Poemetto dell'alba e della notte / Poem of the Dawn and the Night
Fabio Doplicher
- A Diderot / To Diderot
Gregorio Scalise
- [La mente e il corpo sono angeli]/[The mind and body are angels]
- [Ora riapre un testo] / [Now to Reopen a Text]
- [Authority Has Played]
- [Saying again that flowers] (Tr. by Adria Bernardi)
Annalisa Cima
- ("You too will age...") (Tr. by Jonathan Galassi)
- ("Tell me do you too...")
- ("And when you...")
- ("It began as a game...")
- ("After the last flowers...")
- ("Beloved lover...")
- ("Maybe natural analogies...")
- Da Ipotesi d'amore/From Hypotheses on Love
Marica Larocchi
- Don't Jump out of Your Skin
- Sailing to Aphinar (Tr. by Beverly Allen)
- Da In questa forma/ From In This Way
Umberto Piersanti
- Quando l'ottobre lento trascolora / When Slow October Changes Color
Maurizio Cucchi
- [Il mio risveglio è stato nel tuo nome]/ [I am awakened]
- Sorrow (Tr. by Michael Palma)
Giuseppe Conte
- "Trans-Europe-Express" (Tr. by Lawrence Venuti)
- Dopo Marx, Aprile / "After Marx, April"
- Da Lei me diceva proprio così/From This Is Exactly What She Told Me
Cesare Viviani
- [fera aderiscecome era caldo l'abito]/[cruel fair adheres]
- [Il cielo passava l'ultima luce e i fiori]/[The sky overtook the fading light] (Tr. by Lawrence Venuti)
Patrizia Cavalli
- [Qualcuno mi ha detto]/[Someone told me]
- [All'Ombra di una metafora] / [In the Shadow of a Metaphor]
- [Eternità e morte insieme mi minacciano]/ [Together eternity and death threaten me]
- [Now that time seems all mine] (Tr. by Judith Baumel)
- [This Time I Won't Permit the Blue]
- [To Simulate the Burning of the Heart]
Paolo Ruffilli
- Malaria

Da

Mario Santagostini

Milo De Angelis
Valerio Magrelli

Comment

Joseph Parisi
- Some Notes on Post-War Italian Poetry

Contents

James Merrill
- Four Letters to Stephen Yenser

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