{"product_id":"sleep-isbn-9781681377834","title":"Sleep","description":"\u003cb\u003eA major, career-spanning collection of an Italian master's poetry in English, gathered together for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Amelia Rosselli is one of the great poets of postwar Italy. She was  also a musician and musicologist, close to John Cage and Karlheinz  Stockhausen, and she waged a lifelong battle against depression. The  child of Carlo Rosselli, a significant anti-fascist intellectual who was  assassinated with his brother Nello in 1937, Amelia grew up in exile  and attended high school in Mamaroneck, New York. English poetry,  especially the lyrics and sonnets of Shakespeare and the Elizabethans,  became a prime reference for her own poetry, which combines modernist  experimentation with variations on more traditional forms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The  elaborate, archaic, yet thoroughly modern poems, at once stumbling and  singing, that Rosselli composed in English and gathered under the title \u003ci\u003eSleep\u003c\/i\u003e are a beautiful and illuminating part of her work. Six of the poems  were published by John Ashbery in the 1960s but have otherwise been  unavailable to English readers. They are published here for the first  time outside of Italy.“[Rosselli’s] language is dominated by a sort of mechanistic quality: an emulsion that takes form on its own, out of anybody’s control, the way one imagines it goes with the most terrible laboratory experiments, tumors, atomic blasts, which are under control only scientifically but not in their manifestations of stupendousness, in their now-objective occurrence. So that the magma—the stupendousness—is fixed in strophic forms that are as closed and absolute as they are arbitrary.... I can’t remember the last time I encountered anything of this kind so powerfully amorphous, so objectively superb.” —Pier Paolo Pasolini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Each poem feels unfinished but perfect, or like a damaged fresco we can’t quite imagine was ever complete in the first place.” — Luke Roberts, \u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmelia Rosselli \u003c\/b\u003e(1930-1996) was a poet, translator, musician, and musicologist, born in Paris to refugees from Italy. After World War II, she settled in Rome and emerged as one of the most powerful voices in postwar Italian literature. Her eight volumes of poetry probed the traumas of the 20th century—for Rosselli both personal and historical.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarry Schwabsky \u003c\/b\u003eis the art critic for \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e and regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eArtforum, \u003c\/i\u003ewhere he is also an editor. His most recent books include the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eTrembling Hand Equilibrium\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHeretics of Language\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of literary criticism. He lives in New York City.","brand":"NYRB Poets","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305146831077,"sku":"NP9781681377834","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681377834.jpg?v=1767736752","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/sleep-isbn-9781681377834","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}