Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli Rosselli Amelia
Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli Rosselli Amelia A musician, musicologist, and self-defined "poet of research," Amelia Rosselli (1930-96) was one of the most important poets…
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Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli Rosselli Amelia
A musician, musicologist, and self-defined "poet of research," Amelia Rosselli (1930-96) was one of the most important poets to emerge from Europe in the aftermath of World War II. Rosselli's trilingual body of work synthesizes a hybrid literary heritage stretching from Dante and the troubadours through Ezra Pound and John Berryman, in which playful inventions across Italian, English, and French coexist with unadorned social critique. Following a childhood and adolescence spent in exile from Fascist Italy between France, England, and the United States, Rosselli was driven to express the hopes and devastations of the postwar epoch through her demanding and defamiliarizing lines.
In a period dominated by the confessional mode, Rosselli aspired to compose stanzas characterized by a new objectivity and collective orientation, "where the I is the public, where the I is things, where the I