Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. Translated from the Italian by Paul Vangelisti. THE POSITION OF THINGS: COLLECTED POEMS 1961-1992 presents a look back at the career of Adriano Spatola, one of the most important poets of the Italian neo-avant-garde. His poetic oeuvre has remained in only small and often out of print editions both in Italian and English language translation, a situation which, as critic Beppe Cavatorta notes, resulted from Spatola's "uncompromising belief in his own poetic project and of being a true 'renaissance poet,' one extremely difficult to label: a visual poet, a sound poet, a concrete poet, a linear poet, editor of an innovative magazine, a refined critic and translator, organizer of historical poetry happenings... and founder of his 'republics of poetry.'" This collection from Green Integer brilliantly reveals not only Spatola's great talent as a writer but also his social sensibility, his aesthetic, and his political engagement in the surrounding world.
Synopsis
One of the great twentieth-century Italian poets, Adriano Spatola has been many things: a visual poet, a sound poet, a concrete poet, a linear poet, and editor of an innovative magazine, the founder of his “republics of poetry.” This book bilingually represents his collected poems, representing all but the earliest of his works.
Synopsis
The first collected poems of the great Italian author.
About the Author
Adriano Spatola (1941-1988) is the author of numerous books of poetry, and one of the leading I Novissimi movement in Italy. Spatola has long been considered an iconic figure in the Italian neo-avantgardes.