Vanishing Points - Paperback - 9780374532819

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.

• | Author: Valerio Magrelli
• | Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• | Publication Date: Aug 02, 2011
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0374532818
• | ISBN-13: 9780374532819