Description:
Angelo Lumelli's new book is the result of the rewriting of his poetic work. The author has defined the operation as a "re-statement," which amounts to a new saying, an ever-losing struggle against the irrecoverable, the return to uncertainty, to its enormous and unsatisfied faith, to the nascent word, child of the voice.
-Eugenio Gazzola, from the Introduction
Brief description: Angelo Lumelli was born in 1943 into a family of Piedmont peasants. He emigrated to Germanyto study the language of philosophers; he worked as a teacher, served as mayor, and founded andagricultural cooperative. In 2020 he published Le poesie (Poems, Edizioni del Verri), a re-writingof the previously published: Cosa bella cosa (Thing Beautiful Thing, Guanda, 1977), awardedthe Viareggio Prize in 1978; Trattatello incostante ( Variable Treatise, Savelli, 1980); Bambinateoria (Child Theory, Corpo 10, 1990); Seelenboulevard (Niebo, 1999); Per non essere l'acquache amo (Not Being the Water I Love, La vita felice, 2008). He also published: La sposa vestita(The Dressed Bride, Arcipelago, 2006); Bianco è l'istante ( White Is the Moment, Edizioni delVerri, 2015); Verso Hölderlin e Trakl (Toward Hölderlin and Trakl, La Finestra Editrice, 2017).He translated Novalis' Hymnen an die Nacht (Hymns to the Night, Guanda, 1977); Peter Rosei'sWer war Edgar Allan? ( Who was Edgar Allan? Feltrinelli, 1980); and Friedrich Torberg's DerSchüler Gerber (The Schoolboy Gerber, Zandonai, 2013).