Ceccagnoli co-edits new translation of Milo de Angelis poetry

Patrizio Ceccagnoli, lecturer in Italian in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, is the co-editor and translator of “Theme of Farewell and After-Poems: A Bilingual Edition” by Milo de Angelis, published this month by the University of Chicago Press.

 

De Angelis, born in 1951, is one of the most important living Italian poets. The volume, co-edited and translated with Susan Stewart, brings to English readers for the first time a facing-page edition of his most recent work: his book-length elegy “Theme of Farewell,” and the subsequent poems of “That Wandering in the Darkness of Courtyards.” These two books form a sequence narrating the illness and premature death in 2003 of the poet’s wife, the writer Giovanna Sicari. They also trace de Angelis’ turn from grief, through time, back to the world.

 

The book is available for $25 hardcover and $17.50 paperback.

 

Ceccagnoli is also the editor of F. T. Marinetti’s “Venezianella e Studentaccio.”