Vanishing Points: Poems

By Valerio Magrelli

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374532818
• ISBN13: 9780374532819
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.6"