Selected Poems

Translated by Cristina Viti
₹699.00 $24.50 £19.99

Forthcoming in June 2023

Readers outside India:* Click here to pre-order the book.

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.

* Pre-orders not available in India.

ISBN: 9781803091587
Pages: 300
Publication Year: 2023
Size: 6.25" X 9.25"
Format: Paperback
Rights: UCP
Category: Poetry

Reviews

leave a review