December 1937, Nanjing I ducked. With a thunderous rumble, more masonry fell into the open space backing the great city wall and Zhongshan Gate. Another Japanese shelling. White dust billowed sideways on the road where …
da La Sommersione, Nino Aragno Editore, 2016 from The Submersion, Nino Aragno Editore, 2016 I. The Danse: Variation on Burnt Norton We waited and it did not happen. It should not have been …
dichiarazione d‘amore I se mi piaci, ti darò una mucca e saremo amici. se la mucca dopo sei mesi sarà ancora viva, ti darò una poesia. se la mucca dopo un anno farà un …
The students of Harvard University publish a literary magazine, the “Harvard Advocate.” The first poems of Eliot appeared there during his “undergraduate” years, from 1907 to 1910. They are verses of the sadness of youth, …
Glen Phillips: Alpi & Prati, Winged Seed Songs, Tides and Groundwater, Three in The Campagna, with Rose van Son, and Rita Tognini, International Center for Landscape and Language Press, 2014. It is often observed the …
Michael Wyatt, editor: The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance, Cambridge University Press, 2014 Aimed “to provide a broad framework for the interdisciplinary study of the Italian Renaissance” (xvii), the volume contains 17 essays that …
Note: page numbers from Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a dog, are given in brackets, while the end notes include the other referenced texts. Truth coming only through suffering this is true, rest assured. But they …