Most of the Stars: An American Song
Autor Pietro Federico Traducere de John Pochen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2025
In Most of the Stars the linguistic power of the Italian literary tradition and the contemporary vernacular combine to articulate an idiosyncratic understanding of the New World—the breadth of its cities, its towns, its frontiers and interiors. Federico’s deeply spiritual understanding of our own American personalities and histories offers us a gift of beautiful objectivity. Students of poetry, linguistics, and cultural anthropology will be grateful to Federico and Poch for the wonder offered in this bilingual collection.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781587315343
ISBN-10: 1587315343
Pagini: 250
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: St. Augustine Press
Colecția St. Augustines Press
ISBN-10: 1587315343
Pagini: 250
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: St. Augustine Press
Colecția St. Augustines Press
Recenzii
"There is an America that has nourished us since childhood, an America made up of stories as raw, rough, endless and inconclusive as the immense landscapes in which they took place: those landscapes, after all, were stronger than the stories themselves, and they spoke to us from afar, from a place that did not concern us, and which yet was in us before us, as Pavese sensed, who started from Whitman's America to reach, at the end of his great poetic journey, an archaic Greece, pre-Olympic and wild, dripping with blood and mud."
––Giancarlo Pontiggia
"The poetry of Most of the Stars contrasts sharply with contemporary Italian poetry, also and above all with the poetry of Italian poets of my age. The poetry of my country has been focused for centuries (and still continues to focus) exclusively on the analysis and expression of emotional states and on the projection of oneself on reality, often making reality, nature, the cosmos disappear to the advantage of said projections, thus ending up reducing the Vision, the evocative force of reality to a point of view. What I try to do here, through epic and mimesis, is to re-activate our thousand-year-old tradition by re-proposing words as radiations of things (“Nomina sunt consequentia rerum”, as Dante says: names/words as consequences of things), as the result of the poet listening to the cosmos." –– PIETRO FEDERICO
"Most of the stars is a powerful, compact, realistic and visionary work, written in a language that well combines lyricism and narrative vein, a new work compared to the average of contemporary Italian poetry. It is not a journey through the States, it is much more, it is a journey in the spirit of America, of its culture, of the deep layers of its melting pot." –– GIUSEPPE CONTE
"What has always struck me in the poetry but also in the person of Pietro Federico is the momentum. A momentum built from faith and despair together, love and death, like that sprinting into the dark at the end of Arkansas, one of the poems published here. Pietro talks about each state, identifying himself with indigenous characters, either real or fictional. And it is as though he had lived in those places as a child, or even before childhood. It is as though he had lived there in other lives." –– CLAUDIO DAMIANI
––Giancarlo Pontiggia
"The poetry of Most of the Stars contrasts sharply with contemporary Italian poetry, also and above all with the poetry of Italian poets of my age. The poetry of my country has been focused for centuries (and still continues to focus) exclusively on the analysis and expression of emotional states and on the projection of oneself on reality, often making reality, nature, the cosmos disappear to the advantage of said projections, thus ending up reducing the Vision, the evocative force of reality to a point of view. What I try to do here, through epic and mimesis, is to re-activate our thousand-year-old tradition by re-proposing words as radiations of things (“Nomina sunt consequentia rerum”, as Dante says: names/words as consequences of things), as the result of the poet listening to the cosmos." –– PIETRO FEDERICO
"Most of the stars is a powerful, compact, realistic and visionary work, written in a language that well combines lyricism and narrative vein, a new work compared to the average of contemporary Italian poetry. It is not a journey through the States, it is much more, it is a journey in the spirit of America, of its culture, of the deep layers of its melting pot." –– GIUSEPPE CONTE
"What has always struck me in the poetry but also in the person of Pietro Federico is the momentum. A momentum built from faith and despair together, love and death, like that sprinting into the dark at the end of Arkansas, one of the poems published here. Pietro talks about each state, identifying himself with indigenous characters, either real or fictional. And it is as though he had lived in those places as a child, or even before childhood. It is as though he had lived there in other lives." –– CLAUDIO DAMIANI
Notă biografică
PIETRO FEDERICO was born in Bologna, Italy in 1980, and currently lives in Rome. Writer, copywriter, story editor and professional translator, his poetry books are: Non nulla (2003, Ibiskos Editore, Empoli) winner of the prize “Il Fiore” Pistoia 2003; Mare Aperto (Nino Aragno Editore, Turin, 2015) winner of the Subiaco Award 2015 and Ceppo Award 2017; La maggioranza delle stelle – Canto Americano (Edizioni Ensemble, Rome, 2020).
JOHN POCH’s poems and translations have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, Agni, and many other magazines. His most recent collection of poems is Texases (WordFarm 2019). He is the series editor of the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, and he recently edited the collection, Gracious: Poems from the 21st Century South (TTU Press 2020). His first book of criticism, God’s Poems: The Beauty of Poetry and the Christian Imagination was published by St. Augustine’s Press (2022). He teaches at Grace College in Indiana.
JOHN POCH’s poems and translations have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, Agni, and many other magazines. His most recent collection of poems is Texases (WordFarm 2019). He is the series editor of the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, and he recently edited the collection, Gracious: Poems from the 21st Century South (TTU Press 2020). His first book of criticism, God’s Poems: The Beauty of Poetry and the Christian Imagination was published by St. Augustine’s Press (2022). He teaches at Grace College in Indiana.