The Promised Land: Italian Poetry After 1975

by Ballerini, Luigi; Cavatorta, Beppe; Coda, Elena; Vangelisti, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781557133168
• ISBN10: 1557133166
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

The third volume in Sun & Moon Press's series of international anthologies of poetry, The Promised Land explores late 20th century Italian poetry - a poetry marked by experimentation and various innovative movements since 1975. Among the many poets included in this new anthology are Nanni Balestrini, Eduardo Cacciatore, Nanni Cagnone, Biagio Cepollaro, Sebastiana Command, Corrado Costa, Alfredo Giuliani, Milli Graffi, Angelo Lumelli, Giulia Niccolai, Giancarlo Majorino, Elio Pagliarani, Antonio Porta, Amelia Rosselli, Giovanna Sandri, Edoardo Sanguineti, Adriano Spatola, Emilo Villa, Paulo Volponi, Andrea Zanzotto, Milo De Angelis, and Luigi Ballerini.
The Promised Land makes for exciting reading of contemporary poetry and is one of the most comprehensive studies of late 20th century Italian poetry ever published.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 15
Cognac	p. 23
Choosing	p. 27
The Permit	p. 29
The License	p. 37
Part One	p. 41
Part Two	p. 49
Finale	p. 57
Directions for the Practical Use of Miss Richmond	p. 57
The Cadence of a Neighboring Clan	p. 67
Song of the Moment	p. 81
Autumn Is Moved	p. 87
One at Regina Coeli Prison	p. 93
Campo di Fiori	p. 93
In July Moonlight	p. 95
Reflection at Its Finishing Line	p. 95
May Terror Sleep	p. 97
The Spinning Top	p. 99
Imminence	p. 105
The Bloodline	p. 109
from The Soul of Emptiness	p. 119
Toulouse-Lautrec	p. 127
In Cezanne's Studio	p. 131
Requiem in c	p. 137
Night	p. 143
Of the Shadows That Eat Us Alive	p. 143
Password	p. 149
But in What Tongue to Have an Echo	p. 149
Foundations of a Shiver	p. 151
They Go See Three Films	p. 153
Locates the Invisible Man on a Map of the Mojave Desert	p. 155
The Invisible Man	p. 157
Heinrich Schliemann and the Invisible Man	p. 161
Heaven Can Wait	p. 161
Identify Seven Mistakes in the Same Film Seen Twice in a Row	p. 163
Film with Actors Found in the Streets	p. 165
Technicolor Portrait of a Very Beautiful Woman Met by Accident in the Greek Anthology	p. 167
Baruchello! Let's, Once and for All, Make a Catalog of Vowels	p. 167
Coincidences	p. 177
from Sweet Fable	p. 179
from The Lady of the Game	p. 181
from Letter and Prayer	p. 181
'53	p. 183
Valeria	p. 183
Carlo Michelstaedter's Letters	p. 185
from Light of Separation	p. 185
from Crouching Animal	p. 187
The First Comes	p. 189
The Train Corridor	p. 189
The Causes of the Beginning	p. 191
In History	p. 193
Year	p. 195
"On the Way to Mind"	p. 195
Telegram	p. 197
Heloise	p. 199
Flight Notes	p. 211
Chomsky Poem	p. 221
Predilections	p. 223
The Days Minus the Days	p. 225
Once More Unto the Breach	p. 225
Augustine's Poetics	p. 227
Canzonetta	p. 227
Ricky Had a Snack	p. 229
Hang in there, Mouse!	p. 231
The Thrill of Appeasements	p. 231
Poem of Shadows	p. 235
The Night of the Egg	p. 239
The Oneiric Labourite's Proposals	p. 242
from Strolegh	p. 249
from Secundum Luna	p. 251
from Aria	p. 253
from Actor's Dream	p. 253
from Angel	p. 257
from Liber	p. 259
oh you sleeping angels	p. 265
duo soledad	p. 267
Outside or inside the outlandish hotel	p. 281
Auctor	p. 289
from Breed	p. 289
from Naming	p. 293
from Frantic Ladies	p. 299
from Milk Teeth	p. 303
from Solitude and The Rest of Them	p. 307
it's a good thing we have you garbage truck	p. 313
Time of Brawls	p. 317
Glory and Sluggishness	p. 317
Rain with Sun	p. 319
Time	p. 319
You	p. 321
Petite Mort	p. 321
The Ancient Word	p. 323
Body and Soul	p. 323
Whoknowswho	p. 325
Landing	p. 325
Clearing Away	p. 325
Doubtful-all-over	p. 327
Medley of the City	p. 327
Poetry	p. 329
Borgo Pio	p. 329
The Lockheed Ballad	p. 333
from Frisbees	p. 337
Orpheus Who Loved Orpheus	p. 353
At the Beach There Are No Colors	p. 377
Tugging the nets are pulled	p. 377
Social Problems	p. 381
Talk to Sagredo	p. 385
Nandi's Blues	p. 385
Anorexic or Bulimic Rap Whatever	p. 389
from The Ferrara epigrams	p. 389
from Platonic Exercises	p. 391
Seven Epigrams from Martin Luther	p. 393
The Struggle and Victory of the Gardener Over the Undertaker	p. 395
Salome, Her Last Words	p. 407
"What's with my heart that beats so tenderly"	p. 415
"Because I do not hope to ever return to the city of beauty"	p. 415
"I sell you my cooking stove, then you scratch It"	p. 415
"Searching for an answer to an unconscious voice"	p. 415
"The angels exit"	p. 417
"As if I knew what the opposite means"	p. 417
"I try to work a deal - then I try another one"	p. 419
"When on a tank I get close"	p. 421
"Not to get tired, not to be smeared"	p. 423
"The spirit of the earth moves me"	p. 423
"Blow cloud, as though in the"	p. 425
"My soul in shreds"	p. 427
"To seem to others"	p. 427
"Science-fiction folly"	p. 427
"I take part in the void that coloring"	p. 429
"What light livid or violet"	p. 431
Letter to Her Brother	p. 431
from the house of Listening	p. 433
unlimited creation	p. 433
by itself	p. 435
Hellas	p. 435
intensity	p. 435
of the/of	p. 435
sea	p. 437
among/of	p. 437
meeting	p. 439
and	p. 439
like the	p. 439
from Rebus	p. 441
The Last Walk: Homage to Pascoli	p. 443
Matter, Materials, Recovery of	p. 453
Moskovskaya (Vodka)	p. 459
Assassins in Love	p. 461
Missing Identification	p. 463
The Prehistory Complex	p. 463
Homage to Tot's Stones	p. 465
The Words	p. 473
from Seventeen Variations on Proposed Themes for a Pure Phonetic Ideology	p. 475
from Merisi	p. 495
from The Prayer of the Name	p. 499
A Glimpse of the Parallel Year	p. 507
Glances Facts and Senhals	p. 521
Morer, Sacher	p. 543
Isla Bonita	p. 547
"Finality, and easy non-being"	p. 547
Irrtum	p. 549
You Know That	p. 551
And You Lean Out	p. 553
Biographies	p. 555
Credits and Acknowledgments	p. 565
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