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L'opera in versi
Il corposo Meridiano presenta tutte le poesie edite di Caproni, uno dei poeti più amati del nostro Novecento, cui si aggiunge un cospicuo numero di inediti spesso di alto valore poetico. Per la prima volta i testi di Caproni sono accompagnati da un apparato critico, che registra sia le varianti a stampa sia quelle manoscritte e include una ricca selezione di autocommenti e di spiegazioni dell’autore sulle sue poesie.
- GenresPoetry
1982 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1998
About the author
Giorgio Caproni
81 books18 followersGiorgio Caproni (Livorno, 7 January 1912 – 22 January 1990, Rome) was an Italian poet, literary critic and translator, especially from French.
Caproni left Livorno at the age of ten to complete his primary studies in Genoa, where he studied first music, then literature, and where he wrote his first poems. After participating in World War II as a member of the Italian resistance movement, he spent many years as an elementary school teacher.
In 1945, he went to Rome, where he contributed to a number of journals; besides poetry he also wrote criticism and novellas and contributed translations. His book Il passaggio di Enea collected all of his poems written to 1956 and reflected his experiences in combat during World War II and serving with the Resistance. He also oversaw a series of translations of foreign works, chief among which was Mort à crédit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
In 1959, Caproni and fellow poets Antonio Seccareccia, Elio Filippo Accrocca, and Ugo Royal began the Frascati National Poetry Prize, an annual poetry competition for previously unpublished works. The annual prize began as a cask of wine; in 1974, it was changed to a cash prize of 1,000,000 Italian lire.
Caproni's poetry touches on a number of recurring themes, most notably Genoa, his mother and birthplace, and travel, and combines a sense of refinement in both meter and style to immediacy and clarity of feeling.
Caproni left Livorno at the age of ten to complete his primary studies in Genoa, where he studied first music, then literature, and where he wrote his first poems. After participating in World War II as a member of the Italian resistance movement, he spent many years as an elementary school teacher.
In 1945, he went to Rome, where he contributed to a number of journals; besides poetry he also wrote criticism and novellas and contributed translations. His book Il passaggio di Enea collected all of his poems written to 1956 and reflected his experiences in combat during World War II and serving with the Resistance. He also oversaw a series of translations of foreign works, chief among which was Mort à crédit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
In 1959, Caproni and fellow poets Antonio Seccareccia, Elio Filippo Accrocca, and Ugo Royal began the Frascati National Poetry Prize, an annual poetry competition for previously unpublished works. The annual prize began as a cask of wine; in 1974, it was changed to a cash prize of 1,000,000 Italian lire.
Caproni's poetry touches on a number of recurring themes, most notably Genoa, his mother and birthplace, and travel, and combines a sense of refinement in both meter and style to immediacy and clarity of feeling.
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June 25, 2012
Senza di te un albero
non sarebbe più un albero.
Nulla senza di te
sarebbe quello che è.
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Si muore d'asfissia,
è noto, per difetto
d'ossigeno. Lo si può anche,
e forse più dolorosamente,
per mancanza d'affetto.
non sarebbe più un albero.
Nulla senza di te
sarebbe quello che è.
*************************
Si muore d'asfissia,
è noto, per difetto
d'ossigeno. Lo si può anche,
e forse più dolorosamente,
per mancanza d'affetto.
March 12, 2011
grande poesia...come tutti i libri di versi non si finisce mai di "ascoltarlo"...
"Il mio viaggiare
è stato tutto un restare
qua, dove non fui mai."
April 21, 2013
"Il seme del piangere", raccolta uscita nel '59, è davvero "il più bel canzoniere filiale della nostra letteratura moderna", come scrisse Geno Pampaloni.
July 23, 2017
Fino al Conte di Kavenhuller.
Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews