A Boy Asleep Under the Sun: Versions of Sandro Penna
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (905 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 069229693X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 210 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Everything else is just a tedious noise. He once told a reporter (who probably had to pay dearly for the interview), “I am not a homosexual. In his poetry Penna clearly says who he is and how he feels. They are very modest, indeed. What you will find is an attachment to everyday reality. He moves away from the trappings of identity toward an honest expression of love. With abruptness and clarity, these exquisite and sometimes disturbing lyrics come at you as if they had just been discovered, taken directly from the secret hand of the poet. But I do not know how to speak of anything else. I am a pederasta … Homosexuality is a privilege.” Penna’s homosexuality is complicated in one sense by a moral dilemma: The problem of sex consumes my entire life. Since his poems chiefly concern homosexual love, they face being relegated to a gay-only ghetto of readers or to another ghetto that even homosexuals avoid: pederastia. Penna never hid his sexuality in interviews. You also won’t find a vision of historical process or a mass of physical details. Even with the
. In 2010, he turned to filmmaking and has completed 60 shorts to date, 24 of which have been screened at Anthology Film Archives. He has translated the work of Luis Cernuda, Nanni Balestrini and Pier Paolo Pasolini, and he is the co-translator of the chapbook, Selected Late Letters of Antonin Artaud, 1945-1947 (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2014). His book The Artaud Variations is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. He is the author of the chapbook, Forge of Words a Forest (Jensen Daniels, 1998), and his poems have appeared in journals such as Mirage #4/Periodical, First Intensity, Prosodia, Aufgabe and Talisman. In the late 1990s, he co-edited the poetry magazines Vapor/Strains and Lady Blizzard’s Batmobile and wrote articles on jazz for the Edgewater Reporter. About the Author Peter Valente was born in Salerno, Italy and grew up in New Jersey
In the late 1990s, he co-edited the poetry magazines Vapor/Strains and Lady Blizzard’s Batmobile and wrote articles on jazz for the Edgewater Reporter. Peter Valente was born in Salerno, Italy and grew up in New Jersey. He holds a B.S. He is the author of the chapbook, Forge of Words a Forest (Jensen Daniels, 1998), and his poems have appeared in journals such a
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