Portraits of Absence
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Product Details
Author:
Fabiano Alborghetti, Marco Sonzogni, Ross Woods
Series:
Essential Translations Series
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
144
Publisher:
Guernica Editions (July 15, 2017)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9781771832007
ISBN-10:
1771832002
Dimensions:
5" x 8" x 0.35"
File:
Eloquence-IPG_07022026_P10280930_onix30_Complete-20260702.xml
Folder:
Eloquence
List Price:
$20.00
As low as:
$17.20
Publisher Identifier:
P-IPG
Discount Code:
C
Case Pack:
57
Audience:
General/trade
Pub Discount:
60
Imprint:
Guernica Editions
Weight:
12oz
Overview
Portraits of Absence is poetry of witness, of unflinching eyewitness accounts of atrocities--the devil's definition of humanity. Fabiano Alborghetti's words, unfolding with machine-gun hiccoughs and staccato rhythms, spaces where the dead drop and the living fall, weeping, are tactile, palpable, sonnets of wreckage and ruin. Consider him a 21st-century Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon, with even less reticence before Horror than either of those Great War Poets. Alborghetti is an essential voice, a cry out-of-the-wilderness of our own bad, mad, sad hearts. We are lucky to have such a courageous Cassandra; we are damned that he has so much Terror to report to us. These are magnificent, impressive lyrics, unforgettable in their heart-tearing, barbed-wire-laced, gung-ho Sorrow. "I am a hindrance, I belong to the nation ... / Stripped of belongings exile illuminated the debris / the back not yet pierced by bullets ... / I am infamy: / marching, departing / head down."
- George Elliott Clarke, Parliamentary/Canad
