World Literature Today, June 22nd, 2000
Luigi Fontanella. The Transparent Life and Other Poems. Michael Palma, tr. Stony Brook, N.Y. Gradiva. 2000. xi + 84 pages. $13. ISBN 1-892021-03-X.
Luigi Fontanella, a deracinated Italian, has published several volumes of Italian poetry in the United States. In The Transparent Life we find facing pages containing Italian and English texts. His verse is not melancholy, but expresses rather an enthusiastic love for humanity, for his family and friends. We discover here philosophical passages and descriptions of everyday things, including objects of external nature: the flowering branches of s...
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