Research Catalog

Title

Abandoned places : poems / Tonino Guerra ; translated from the Romagnole, Italian by Adria Bernardi.

Author

Guerra, Tonino.

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : Guernica, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bernardi, Adria, 1957-

Description

143 pages; 19 cm.

Summary

• Tonino Guerra is best known for his work in film with directors that include Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, the Taviani Brothers, and Andrey Tarkovsky. In this collection of poetry, Italian screenwriter and poet Tonino Guerra captures the harshness and the magic of a culture and language which have disappeared.
• The original poems, written in the dialect of the montanari, the mountaineers of the Apennine mountains of Romagna, reflect the mixture of sardonic humor and whimsy for which Guerra is known in his work in film. Included in this collection are Il miele (The Honey), La capanna (The Hut), Il viaggio (The Journey), and Il libro delle chiese abbandonate (The Book of Abandoned Churches).

Series Statement

Essential poets series ; 74

Uniform Title

Essential poets ; 74.

Subject

• Guerra, Tonino > Translations into English

Note

• Poems translated from 4 books: Il miele, La capanna, Il viaggio, Il libro delle chiese abbandonate.

Contents

Introduction / Rebecca West -- The Honey -- The Hut -- The Journey -- The Valley of White Churches -- The Cracks -- The Black Spot -- The Breakfast -- The Words Inside a Stone -- The Sandals -- Two Coffee Mills -- The Sheep -- The Streak -- The Butterflies -- A Buttonhole of the New Jacket -- The Bowing Candles -- The Bell -- The Water of the Parish -- The Big Church -- The Corner -- The Cherry Leaves -- The Graveyard of Rusted Crosses -- Sssh! -- The White Horse -- The Disobedient Hen -- The Garden of the Nuns -- The Mulberry -- The Trench.

ISBN

1550710303

LCCN

95081893

OCLC

ocm40942907

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries