Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems

Hardback

Main Details

Title Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Fabio Pusterla
Translated by Will Schutt
Edited by Will Schutt
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:200
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780691245102
ClassificationsDewey:851.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
NZ Release Date 18 July 2023
Publication Country United States

Description

Award-winning new translations of a major contemporary Italian poet Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems collects forty-five poems by Fabio Pusterla, one of the most distinguished Italian-language poets writing today. Born in Switzerland and resident in Italy, Pusterla engages the pressing moral concerns of his age and excavates the hidden realities of our concrete world. These are poems of disquieting Alpine landscapes and rift zones, filled with curious fauna, lanced with troubling memories, built "from the bottom, from the margins, from outside" the mainstream. Pusterla is the author of eight critically acclaimed books of poetry and has received several major literary prizes. Selected and translated by Will Schutt, himself an award-winning poet, this volume draws from Pusterla's six most recent collections to capture a wide range of the poet's work. With English translations and Italian originals on facing pages, Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems deftly introduces one of Europe's most ambitious, imaginative, and humane poets to English-speaking readers.

Author Biography

Fabio Pusterla is a prolific poet, essayist, and translator, most notably of the work of Philippe Jaccottet. His honors include the Swiss Schiller Prize, the Gottfried Keller-Preis, and the Premio Napoli for lifetime achievement. Will Schutt is the author of Westerly, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, and translator of My Life, I Lapped It Up: Selected Poems of Edoardo Sanguineti, among other works from Italian. For his translations of Fabio Pusterla's poetry he received the Raiziss/de Palchi Award from the Academy of American Poets.