Before Nightfall, by Silvia Vecchini
Illustrated by Sualzo Finalist, Premio Strega Ragazze e Ragazzi 2021 ____________ JACKET COPY Carlo is a teenager who happens to be hearing-impaired and can see only out of one eye. […] Read more ...
Poetry
Confluenze: Poesie Scelte
Elliot Edizioni, 199 pages (Rome, 2021) ____________ DESCRIPTION A bilingual edition of the selected poems of Geoffrey Brock, edited by Paolo Febbraro and translated into Italian by Febbraro, Damiano Abeni, […] Read more ...
Allegria, by Giuseppe Ungaretti
Winner, 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry Winner, 2022 Joseph Tusiani Italian Translation Prize ____________ JACKET COPY Famed for his brevity, Giuseppe Ungaretti’s early poems swing nimbly from the coarse […] Read more ...
Last Dream, by Giovanni Pascoli
Winner, 2020 Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize ____________ JACKET COPY An essential new translation of one of Italian literature’s most celebrated poets. Giovanni Pascoli stands as a towering figure at the […] Read more ...
Voices Bright Flags: Poems
Winner, Anthony Hecht Prize Named a TLS “Book of the Year” ____________ JACKET COPY Voices Bright Flags is a series of experiments in what is sometimes called public poetry, with […] Read more ...
My Poems Won’t Change the World, by Patrizia Cavalli
Edited & introduced by Gini Alhadeff; translated by Alhadeff, Geoffrey Brock, Moira Egan & Damiano Abeni, Jonathan Galassi, Jorie Graham, Kenneth Koch, J.D. McClatchy, David Shapiro, Mark Strand, and Rosanna […] Read more ...
The FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry
Edited & introduced by Geoffrey Brock, with poems by 75 Italian poets & translations by more than 100 translators, from Samuel Beckett to Seamus Heaney ____________ JACKET COPY More than […] Read more ...
The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, David Yezzi, ed.
JACKET COPY The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets gathers the work of thirty–five of the most compelling and talented new poets writing today. Groundbreaking anthologies of this kind come along […] Read more ...
Poetry’s Italian Portfolio: Dec. 2007
I’ve had thirty-six lovers plus tax. —Alda Merini (trans. by Douglas Basford) ABOUT Edited by Geoffrey Brock, the “Italian Portfolio” in this special issue of Poetry magazine contains nineteen poems […] Read more ...
Weighing Light: Poems
Winner, New Criterion Poetry Prize ____________ JACKET COPY The fifth winner of the annual New Criterion Poetry Prize is Geoffrey Brock’s Weighing Light. From the glinting scales in a painting by […] Read more ...