A Boy Asleep under the Sun: Versions of Sandro Penna

A Boy Asleep under the Sun: Versions of Sandro Penna

Peter Valente’s first encounter with Sandro Penna’s poetry was while translating Pier Paolo Pasolini. At the time, Valente was reading a biography on Pasolini and learned of his close friendship with Penna. Pasolini insisted that among serious readers of poetry, Penna could not be ignored. Born in P...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Penna, Sandro, author (author), Valente, Peter, 1970- translator (translator)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2014
Baltimore, Maryland : 2020
Subjects:
Italian poetry > 20th century.
gay poetry
homosexuality
love
Sandro Penna
Italian poetry
Poetry.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009428036106719
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • A note on the translation
  • Poems (1927-1955)
  • Notes (1938-1949)
  • The strange joy of living (1949-1955)
  • Sacred and profane (1927-1957)
  • Oddities (1957-1976)
  • The sleepless traveller (1977)
  • About the translator.

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