Love-in-Idleness: The Poetry of Roberto Zingarello

In his fictional speaker, Roberto Zingarello, John Bradley has found a way to manage the weight of the 20th century, questing for love, truth, and revenge. Fascist Italy is confronted and ultimately transcended as Bradley's obsessions with Italian film and literature bear this astonishing fruit, a history both public and private. Says Ray Gonzalez of the Bloomsbury Review, "We need more characters like Zingarello in American poetry and more poets like Bradley who will step out of bounds to shake us with writing that is so different and important." Bill Tremblay adds, "With Love-in-Idleness, John Bradley enters the world of fictive poetry, and we are the richer for it. In Zingarello, Bradley has created a voice big enough to express the human dream of transcending history."

Author: John Bradley
Publisher: Word Works
Published: 12/01/2014
Pages: 92
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d
ISBN: 9780915380886

About the Author
Bradley, John: - John Bradley is the author of five books: LOVE-IN- IDLENESS: THE POETRY OF ROBERTO ZINGARELLO (The Word Works, 2015), Terrestrial Music, War on Words, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2010), and Trancelumination. He has edited three anthologies: Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age; Learning to Glow: A Nuclear Reader; and EATING PURE LIGHT: HOMAGE TO THOMAS MCGRATH (The Backwaters Press, 2009). Recipient of two NEA fellowships and a Pushcart Prize, he teaches at Northern Illinois University.

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