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 ...

Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi

Introduction by Umberto Eco Afterword by Rebecca West ____________ JACKET COPY Though one of the best-known books in the world, Pinocchio at the same time remains unknown—linked in many minds to the […] 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 ...