Literature

Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems

    Translated by
  • Will Schutt
    Edited by
  • Will Schutt

Award-winning new translations of a major contemporary Italian poet

Paperback

Price:
$19.95/£16.99
ISBN:
Published:
Apr 11, 2023
2023
Pages:
200
Size:
5.5 x 8.5 in.
Main_subject:
Literature
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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.


Awards and Recognition

  • Winner of the Joseph Tusiani Italian Translation Prize, Calandra Italian American Institute