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 ...

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 ...

Two Lines: Power (co-edited)

All neighbors of the flesh —form, fields of wheat, emptiness— are gathered in its immediacy. —Eunice Odio (trans. by Keith Ekiss & Sonia P. Ticas) ______ ABOUT Two Lines: Power, […] Read more ...