Italian
Poets
Elio Pagliarani
and
Luigi Ballerini
will
be featured in three events:
Bilingual (Italian/English) poetry reading with
Elio
Pagliarani and Luigi
Ballerini
followed by discussion
Tuesday, 14 October 2003
11:00 a.m.
112 Animal Science Hall
Bilingual (Italian/English) poetry
reading with
Elio
Pagliarani and Luigi
Ballerini
Tuesday, 14 October 2003
4:00 p.m.
Canterbury Booksellers
315 West Gorham Street
Italian poetry reading with
Elio
Pagliarani
Thursday, 16 October 2003
4:00 p.m.
The French House, 633 N. Frances St.
Refreshments will be provided
Sponsored by The Center for European Studies
, the Italian
Cultural Institute of Chicago,
and the Department
of French and Italian
Elio Pagliarani is one of the most significant Italian poets of the 20th Century, and a charter member of the legendary Gruppo 63. He will be reading from his Ragazza Carla (A Girl Named Carla, 1960), an epoch-making work that marked the transition from Neo-realism to the Experimental modes of the Sixties and early Seventies, as well as from Lezione di fisica (Physics Lesson, 1968), La ballata di Rudy (Rudy's Ballad, 1993) which earned his author the prestigious Viareggio Prize, and his more recent cut-outs and montages of texts by Plato, Savonarola and Martin Luther. Born in Viserba in 1927, Elio Pagliarani lives in Rome. His poetry is featured in one of the seminal anthologies of post-War Europe, I Novissimi: Poetry for the Sixties (U.S. edition, Sun & Moon, 1995) and in a number of contemporary collections including, The Promised Land: Italian Poetry after 1975 (Sun & Moon, 1999).
Luigi Ballerini was born in Milan in 1940, and he lives in New York City and Los Angeles, where he is professor of Italian Studies at UCLA. He has written numerous volumes of poetry in Italian and English, including Eccettera E (Etcetera And, 1972), La piramide capovolta (The Inverted Pyramid, 1975), Che oror l’orient (What Horror the Orient, 1991), Shakespearean Rags (1996), The Cadence of a Neighboring Tribe (1997), and Uno monta la luna (2001). He was awarded the prestigious Feronia Prize for poetry in 1992.