Vanishing Points

The renowned Italian poet Valerio Magrelli has forged a unique approach for exploring the subtleties of language, a poetry of perception that takes the measure of its own veerings, the exact degree / of deviation. His poems are histories of the inner life that turn into X-rays of the urban and the global, and press the intelligence into the service of the senses. Magrelli's poems condense the abstract and the intensely physical, subjecting modern experience to a minute and naked scrutiny. Not since Eugenio Montale has a poet brought together in one voice so many strands of the Italian lyric tradition and handled them with such originality.

Author: Valerio Magrelli
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 08/02/2011
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780374532819

About the Author

Valerio Magrelli was born in Rome. He has published critical works on Dadaism and Paul Valéry, as well as notable translations of Mallarmé, Verlaine, and Valéry. He recently published a study of Baudelaire.

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