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Frenetic, fervent and musical,
Songs of My Surrenders is the follow up to Marc di Saverio's highly acclaimed epic poem Crito Di Volta.
Following in the footsteps of great Modernist and Romantic poets, and yet paving a path that is unmistakably his own, contemporary rebel-poet di Saverio offers a deeply romantic and darkly spiritual array of masterful sonnets, senryu and haiku, alongside select translations from Émile Nelligan, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, and Giacomo Leopardi.
At its heart,
Songs of My Surrenders offers an overpowering vision of a decaying civilisation, insisting that the cure is found in passionate and unconditional love, and in urgent spiritual renewal.
A wind of dust blows my tears
Into the daisies of the jetty where I waitFor you continuously; is it trueWhat they say, that you no longer loveMe? I will wait here, still. I will not move.
About the author
Marc di Saverio hails from Hamilton, Canada. His poems and translations have appeared in such outfits as
Maisonneuve, CNQ, Hazlitt, Event, and
The Fiddlehead. In Issue 92 of
Canadian Notes and Queries, Di Saverio's
Sanatorium Songs (2013) was hailed as "the greatest poetry debut from the past 25 years." In 2016, he received the City of Hamilton Arts Award for Best Emerging Writer. In 2017, his work was broadcasted on BBC Radio 3, his debut became a best seller in both Canada and the United States, and he published his first book of translations:
Ship of Gold: The Essential Poems of Émile Nelligan (Vehicule Press). His epic poem,
Crito Di Volta, was released in 2020 to great acclaim.
