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Selected Poems The Italian List

by [Di Ruscio, Luigi]

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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.

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  • Seagull Books Brand
  • Aug 24, 2023 Pub Date:
  • 9781803091587 ISBN-13:
  • 1803091584 ISBN-10:
  • 300.0 pages Paperback
  • English Language
  • 9.25 in * 0.8 in * 6.25 in Dimensions:
  • 2 lb Weight: