Antonia Pozzi

Tio Okuvliga lågor är en antologi av italiensk poesi. Tio kvinnor som har präglat 1900-talets italiensk lyrik presenteras i denna bok, många av dem för första gången i svensk översättning.

Antonia Pozzi oli yksi 1900-luvun tärkeimmistä italialaisista runoilijoista. Vahva, omaääninen naislyyrikko menehtyi nuorena, mutta hänen tuotantonsa arvostus on vain kasvanut vuosien kuluessa. Runoja iltahämärästä -teos on ensimmäinen suomen kielellä julkaistu valikoima Pozzin runoutta. Käännösten lisäksi kirjassa ovat mukana myös alkuperäiset italiankieliset runot. Teoksen on suomentanut ja toimittanut Lauri Kaila.

Antonia Pozzi (1912-1938) er en italiensk poet. I en alder av 26 år ble hun funnet livløs på plenen utenfor klostermurene i den lille landsbyen Chiaravalle utenfor Milano. Den unge poeten rakk å etterlate seg i underkant av tre hundre upubliserte dikt som i ettertiden skulle sikre henne en plass blant de mest originale stemmene i moderne italiensk litteratur. Antonia Pozzis dikterkunst kjennetegnes av en sparsommelig og nøysom språkbruk, og utmerker seg særlig ved sine skarpe , detaljerte observasjoner. Den til tider intense lengselen og psykologiske følsomheten som kommer til uttrykk i diktene, har fått noen til å sammenligne henne med blant annet Emily Dickinson og Sylvia Plath.

After her tragic death in December 1938 at the early age of twenty-six, Antonia Pozzi's poems - which she had been secretly writing for years - were brought to light and became the object of great critical attention, going through several editions in Italy and being translated into all the major European languages. Since then, her reputation has risen steadily, and she is now considered one of the greatest Italian poets of the twentieth century. This new version by prize-winning poet and translator Peter Robinson perfectly renders the delicate undertones and that sense of longing which is such a distinctive feature of Pozzi's poetry.

At the start of a promising career, Antonia Pozzi (1912-1938) committed suicide, leaving behind several hundred poems known only to her closest friends. The posthumous publication of this work led Eugenio Montale to praise Pozzi's "desire to reduce the weight of words to the minimum." Her Modernist verse is lyrical and experimental, pastoral and erotic, powerfully evoking the northern Italian landscape and her personal tragedies amid the repressive climate of Fascism. Breath contains a representative selection of Pozzi's poems in an Italian/ English bilingual format along with a number of her letters. In an introductory essay, editor-translator Lawrence Venuti documents her tormented life, considers her sophisticated thinking about her writing, and sketches the rich literary traditions that she inherited, creating a detailed context in which her poems can be more fully appreciated. The translations affiliate Pozzi's poetry with the work of comparable English-language writers such as H. D., Mina Loy, and Lorine Niedecker, establishing in translation what Pozzi lacked in Italian: a tradition of Modernist women's poetries. CONTRIBUTORS: Lawrence Venuti.