Description: Ruins gathers writings in the form of verses, fragments, and short essays that Gabriele Tinti has dedicated to the "living sculpture of the actor".
Brief description: Gabriele Tinti is an Italian poet and writer. He has worked with the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the British Museum (among many other institutions), and his poems have been performed by actors including Abel Ferrara, Willem Dafoe, and Kevin Spacey. His work is focused on the theme of death and suffering and is mostly composed in the form of ekphrastic and epigrammatic poetry. In 2018 his ekphrastic poetry project Ruins was awarded the Premio Montale with a ceremony at the Museo Nazionale Romano in Palazzo Altemps.
Review Quotes: Like archaeological ruins, [Tinti's poems] stand complete, even as they sketch a past completeness that is, now, a far country.--Fiona Sampson