Angels of Youth, by Luigi Fontanella

Luigi Fontanella

Luigi Fontanella is a poet, critic, translator, playwright, and novelist.-Life:He graduated from the Sapienza University of Rome , and Harvard University He has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, and Wellesley College...

, is a book of poems written originally in Italian

Italian language

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Synopsis

A cycle of poems reaching for the ineffable wisps of thoughts, memories and impressions that make up one's private world. Especially moving are "Stanzas for Emma," dedicated to the poet's far-distant daughter.

Summary

Angels of Youth is a translation of Ceres, Fontanella's ninth volume of poetry, originally published in Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

 by Caramanica Editore. The Italian edition won The Orazio Caputo Prize and The Olindo de Gennaro Prize, and received over thirty reviews in prestigious literary journals in Europe

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 and the United States

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. Devised with American

United States

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 readers in mind, the Xenos Books

Xenos Books

Xenos Books is a publishing company in Riverside, California that was founded in 1985 by Karl Kvitko and Verona Weiss. The company is known for publishing bilingual books, and modern American and foreign writers in translation.- Poetry :...

translation makes subtle modifications in the content, reorganizes the book's structure and adds two new poems.