The Selected Poetry And Prose of Andrea Zanzotto

by Barron, Patrick; Feldman, Ruth; Harrison, Thomas J.

• ISBN13: 9780226978840
• ISBN10: 0226978842
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

By Now (Ormai) By now the primrose and the warmth at your feet and the green insight of the world The uncovered carpets the loggias shaken by wind and sun tranquil worm of the thorny woods; my distant pain, distinct thirst like another life in the breast Here all that's left is to wrap the landscape around the self and turn your back. Andrea Zanzotto is widely considered Italy's most influential living poet. He has published more than twenty collections of poetry and prose, which cover a vast range of themes, from linguistics and nature to politics and science. A lifelong resident of the hilly farm country of the Veneto, he possesses a rare familiarity with place, and his writings frequently explore the ongoing tensions between nature and culture in his native village, the surrounding countryside, and the nearby remnants of ancient forests. The rare writer in Italy to straddle both historical and geographical boundaries, Zanzotto also speaks in a voice that acknowledges Italy's dramatic transformation from an agrarian society to an industrialized nation. The first comprehensive collection in thirty years to translate this master European poet for an English-speaking audience, The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto includes the very best poems from fourteen of Zanzotto's major books of verse and a selection of thirteen essays that helps illuminate themes in his poetry as well as elucidate key theoretical underpinnings of his thought. Assembled with the collaboration of Zanzotto himself and featuring a critical introduction, thorough annotations, and a generous selection of photographs and art, The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto will be a major event for both American and Italian letters.

Author Biography

Patrick Barron is assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts–Boston.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. xi
Translator's Note and Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Selected Poetry
from What was the point? Verse, 1938-1942 [1970]
"In the age of silent peace"	p. 18
"In the days of sleepless springs"	p. 18
"At this bridge"	p. 18
from Behind the Landscape [1951]
Indications and Moon	p. 24
How Long	p. 24
By Now	p. 26
There Often in the Dawn	p. 28
Silky	p. 30
Distance	p. 30
Gathering	p. 32
In My Land	p. 34
The Water of Dolle	p. 34
The Infirm Love of Day	p. 36
There on the Bridge	p. 38
Because We Are	p. 40
Behind the Landscape	p. 42
In the Valley	p. 44
from Elegy and Other Poems [1954]
Departure for Vaud	p. 50
from Waning Hours	p. 50
from Vocative [1957]
River at Dawn	p. 58
Vocative Case	p. 58
Colloquy	p. 62
The First Landscapes	p. 64
From a New Height	p. 64
Existing Psychically	p. 70
Impossibility of the Word	p. 70
Before the Sun	p. 74
From the Sky	p. 76
from IX Eclogues [1962]
A Book of Eclogues	p. 84
	p. 84
	p. 88
	p. 92
Through the New Window	p. 96
	p. 98
The Oak Uprooted by the Wind	p. 102
That's How We Are	p. 104
Notifying One's Presence in the Euganean Hills	p. 106
Epilogue: Notes for an Eclogue	p. 106
from Beauty [1968]
The Perfection of the Snow	p. 112
Yes, the Snow Again	p. 114
To the Season	p. 120
from Possible Prefaces or Resumptions or Conclusions	p. 124
To the World	p. 126
The Elegy in Petel	p. 128
from Prophecies or Memories or Bulletin Boards	p. 132
from Glances, Facts and Senhals [1969]
from Glances, Facts and Senhals	p. 140
from Easters [1973]
from Mysteries of Pedagogy	p. 150
The Peace of Oliva	p. 154
Subnarcosis	p. 154
By Lights, by Limits	p. 156
Small Dark Lantern	p. 160
Codicil	p. 162
UaUe	p. 164
from Peasants Wake for Fellini's Casanova [1976]
from Peasants Wake	p. 170
from The Woodland Book of Manners [1978]
"Sweetness. Dearness. Little muffled slaps."	p. 176
Noplace	p. 178
Diffractions, Erythemas	p. 180
(Certain circular chasms brimming with plants...)	p. 186
"Apply to the ossuaries. No ticket is needed."	p. 190
Conflicting Dominant States, Their Designs	p. 194
"Touching and then chopping into slices"	p. 198
(Indications of Civil Wars)	p. 200
(They're the same)	p. 200
from Hypersonnet
I (Sonnet of snouts hyphae and filaments)	p. 204
III (Sonnet of massacres and good manners)	p. 204
IV (Sonnet of decrement and nourishment)	p. 206
(That under the noble guidance)	p. 206
() )(	p. 208
)( ()	p. 208
(Milky)	p. 210
from Phospenes [1983]
Like Last Suppers	p. 216
"Loves impossible as"	p. 220
from Silicon, Carbon, Fortified Villages	p. 220
Squaring the sheet	p. 222
(At Ghene's)	p. 224
"Well disposed silences"	p. 226
from Periscopes	p. 228
Trinkets and Gel	p. 228
(Anticyclones, Winters)	p. 234
Vocability, photons	p. 238
from Tables, Newspapers, Snow-Covered Fields	p. 242
Futures-Simple or Anterior?	p. 244
from Idiom [1986]
Peoples	p. 250
Spheres	p. 252
Horizons	p. 252
"Dangerous-once-splendors"	p. 254
Nino in the Eighties	p. 254
from Going Out to Sew	p. 256
For Montale on His Eightieth Birthday	p. 262
In Memory of Pasolini	p. 266
from Small and Humble Occupations	p. 268
High, Other Language, Beyond Idiom?	p. 272
"The sky is transparent until"	p. 274
Docile, reluctant	p. 276
from Meteo [1996]
Live	p. 282
Morer Sacher	p. 282
Lanugos	p. 284
"There's no telling how much green"	p. 288
Leggends	p. 290
Season of the Rains	p. 292
You know that	p. 294
Other Poppies	p. 296
Currunt	p. 298
Hill, wing	p. 300
"And you lean out like silence"	p. 302
Topinambur	p. 304
Other Topinambur	p. 310
Settlements and Sites	p. 312
Grasses and Manes, Winters	p. 314
from Superimpressions [2001]
Towards the Palu	p. 320
"Towards the Palu" along other paths	p. 322
from Ligonas	p. 324
from Evenings of the festival day	p. 326
from Adempte mihi	p. 330
from At Faen	p. 332
Rereadings of Topinambur	p. 336
Traversing Friuli	p. 338
The other season	p. 340
Amid Other Winds, Out of the Lineup	p. 342
To call you "nature"	p. 342
Inspection	p. 344
Kepos	p. 346
Topinambur and Sun	p. 348
New Poems
"Well-nigh weightless wheels of 2000"	p. 352
At "mount" Villa	p. 352
Unstable House	p. 354
Selected Prose
A Poetry Determined to Hope	p. 363
Some Perspectives on Poetry Today	p. 367
Self-portrait	p. 374
from "Intervento": A Conversation with Middle School Students in Parma	p. 379
Poetic and Bodily Perception	p. 386
Sundials	p. 389
Between Minimal and Maximal Languages	p. 396
The Euganean Hills	p. 404
Between the Recent Past and Distant Present	p. 409
The Future and Languages	p. 418
January	p. 422
Rebirth of the Hills	p. 425
June	p. 426
Notes	p. 429
Primary Works of Poetry and Prose	p. 456
List of Contributors	p. 457
Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 459
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