Luigi Fontanella
ANGELS OF YOUTH
Translated from the Italian by Carol
Lettieri and Irene Marchegiani Jones
ISBN 1-879378-43-4 (paper)
xxiv, 170 pages, $15
Angels
of Youth is a translation of Ceres,
Fontanella's ninth volume of poetry, originally published in Italian by Caramanica
Editore. The Italian edition won the Orazio Caputo Prize and the Olindo De
Gennaro Prize, and received over thirty reviews in prestigious literary journals
in Europe and the United States. Devised with American readers in mind, the
Xenos translation makes subtle modifications in the content, reorganizes the
book's structure and adds two new poems.
REVIEWS
"Fontanella's poetic language has a quality
of disenchanted transparency… I find this to be a particularly seductive
element…" ~ Giulio Ferroni
"Angels of Youth…speaks of the invitation to a 'woven thought'…such
an exhortation constitutes a key to reading and even a gift, a talisman to
carry with us…" ~ Valerio Magrelli
"Fontanella's poetry…speaks of loss, but it avoids a purely elegiac
tone by rooting itself squarely in the plentitude of the here and now."
~ Rebecca J. West, Professor of Italian Literature, University of
Chicago.
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