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Sensual and glimmering, Lorenzo Chiera's elliptical fragments evoke nights of bawdy excess in Trastevere (City made of Roman ruins . . . / what a whorehouse!), translated here by one of the most renowned poets of our time.In his preface, Lawrence Ferlinghetti describes the experience of reading Chiera for the first time: We soon realize we are in the presence of a savage erotic consciousness, as if the lust-driven senses were suddenly awakened out of a hoary sleep of a thousand years, a youth shaken awake by a rude medieval hand, senses still reeling, drunk in the hold of some slave ship, not knowing night from day nor sight from sound, the e…
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Weitere Autoren: Chiamenti, Massimiliano (Übers.) / Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2475-8
- EAN: 9780811224758
- Produktnummer: 21950767
- Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 64 S.
- Masse: H11.1 cm x B16.0 cm x D1.6 cm 134 g
- Gewicht: 134
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Lorenzo Chiera was a 14-century monk.
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