Sale
Selected Poems (The Italian List) - 9781803091587
Seagull Books
ISBN13:
9781803091587
$24.50
$21.48
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.
- | Author: Luigi Di Ruscio
- | Publisher: Seagull Books
- | Publication Date: Aug 24, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 300 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1803091584
- | ISBN-13: 9781803091587
- Author:
- Luigi Di Ruscio
- Publisher:
- Seagull Books
- Publication Date:
- Aug 24, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 300 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1803091584
- ISBN-13:
- 9781803091587