Description
| Product ID: | 9781803091587 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Selected Poems |
| Authors: | Author: Cristina Viti, Luigi Di Ruscio |
| Page Count: | 300 |
| Subjects: | Poetry, Poetry |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The first English translation of an Italian poet known for his uncompromising integrity and strong leftist sympathy for the working man. Born in a sub-proletarian ghetto in Italy in 1930 under the fascist regime, Luigi Di Ruscio was an urchin running wild in the countryside, a Communist with clear anarchist leanings, a jack-of-all-trades. In 1957 he emigrated to Oslo, where he worked for forty years in a steel-wire factory, spending his evenings at the typewriter, delving with furious energy into his native Italian. Di Ruscio insisted that whereas the language of power is always a contrived, one-way fabrication, the language of the underprivileged is upfront and direct, aiming straight and sharp for the truth. Caustic as a shopfloor scouring agent, exhilarating in its overabundance, humor, and outspokenness, Selected Poems stands as a testament of tenacity, a record of class struggle, and a vital presence for our times. |
| Imprint Name: | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-06-05 |
