Selected Poems

The first English translation of an Italian poet known for his uncompromising integrity and strong leftist sympathy for the working man.   Born in a sub-proletarian ghetto in Italy in 1930 under the fascist regime, Luigi Di Ruscio was an urchin running wild in the countryside, a Communist with clear anarchist leanings, a jack-of-all-trades. In 1957 he emigrated to Oslo, where he worked for forty years in a steel-wire factory, spending his evenings at the typewriter, delving with furious energy into his native Italian. Di Ruscio insisted that whereas the language of power is always a contrived, one-way fabrication, the language of the underprivileged is upfront and direct, aiming straight and sharp for the truth. Caustic as a shopfloor scouring agent, exhilarating in its overabundance, humor, and outspokenness, Selected Poems stands as a testament of tenacity, a record of class struggle, and a vital presence for our times.  

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Luigi Di Ruscio (1930-2011) was an Italian poet and writer, who lived in Norway from 1957 through the end of his life. Cristina Viti is a translator working with Italian, English, and French.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Luigi Di Ruscio, Cristina Viti
• Mitarbeit: Cristina Viti (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 23.10.2023
• EAN: 9781803091587
• ISBN: 978-1-80309-158-7
• Seiten: 300
• Abmessung: 236 mm x 159 mm x 23 mm
• Gewicht: 492 g
• Serie: The Italian List
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft