Luigi Fontanella
Luigi Fontanella (born 1943 Salerno, Italy) is a poet, critic, translator, playwright, and novelist.
Life
He graduated from the Sapienza University of Rome (Laurea in Lettere), and Harvard University (Ph.D.) He has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, and Wellesley College.[1] He is Professor at Stony Brook University.[2]
He is founder of IPA (Italian Poetry in America), and the editor of Gradiva and Gradiva Publications.[3]
Awards
- Fulbright Fellow at Princeton University, 1976-1978.
- Prize for Translation by the “Ministero dei Beni Culturali”, Gradiva Publications
- 1998 Orazio Caputo Prize
- 1993 Ragusa Prize
- 2000 Bordighera Poetry Prize
- Circe Sabaudia Prize, Minturnae Prize, S.Andrea Prize
- 2008 Città di Marineo
- 2008 Laurentum Prize
Works
Literary Criticism
- I campi magnetici di A.-Breton-P. Soupault (traduzione, introduzione e note) Roma: Newton Compton, 1979
- Il Surrealismo Italiano. Roma: Bulzoni, 1983, American edition Harvard University, 1981
- Tozzi in America. Roma: Bulzoni. 1986.
- La Parola Aleatoria. Firenze: Ed. Le Lettere, 1992 ISBN 9788871660790
- Il filo verde di Ugo Betti. Camerino: Ed. Mierma, 1993
- Storia di Bontempelli. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 1997
- La Parola Transfuga: Scrittori Italiani Espatriati in America. Firenze: Cadmo, 2003 ISBN 9788879232821
- Pasolini rilegge Pasolini (Milano: Archinto, 2005)
- Giuseppe Berto: Thirty Years Later (Venezia: Marsilio) 2009 ISBN 978883179903
Poetry
- La vita trasparente, 1973-1977. Rebellato. 1978.
- Simulazione di reato. Manduria: Lacaita, 1979
- Stella Saturnina. Roma: Ed. Il Ventaglio, 1989
- Round Trip. Udine: Campanotto, 1991
- Ceres. Formia: Caramanica Editore, 1996 ISBN 9788886261364
- Terra del Tempo. Bologna: Book Editore, 2000 ISBN 9788872323571
- Luigi Fontanella (2000). The Transparent Life and Other Poems. Translator Michael Palma. Gradiva Publications. ISBN 9781892021038.
- Angels of Youth. Riverside, Calif.: Xenos Books, 2001 (Translators C. Lettieri and I. Marchegiani Jones)
- Azul. Milano: Archinto Ed., 2001. ISBN 9788877683885
- Land of Time: Selected Poems 1972-2003. Chelsea Editions. 2006. ISBN 9780972527132.
- L'azzurra memora. Poesie 1970-2005 (Bergamo-Milano: Moretti & Vitali, 2007)
- Oblivion (Milano: Archinto, 2008, Note by Giovanni Raboni)
Fiction
- Milestone e altre storie (Siena-Roma: Il Messapo, 1983
- Hot Dog. Roma: Bulzoni. 1986. English edition Soleil, 1998
- Controfigura (Venezia: Marsilio, 2009)
Reviews
...his most recent poetry is like a rare hothouse flower blooming in Fontanella's garden, laid out like a golf course, with surprising bridges between pleasure and reflection which, in the end, enliven both author and readers. Fontanella is essentially the transcriber of unique lyric moments in a poetic corpus that is neither too fertile (abundant) nor too facile (redundant), yet shines with a contemporary relevance that carries it well beyond its cycles of conception and completion.[3]
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