Bøger af Paolo Ruffilli

Poetry. Translated from the Italian by Ruth Feldmann and James Laughlin. LIKE IT OR NOT is a thematically and stylistically linked volume of seven poems, a brief title poem followed by six extended ones, each prefaced by a pair of sharp epigraphs from writers as diverse as Swift, Proust, and Mishima. Ruffilli's style has been compared to the stream-of-consciousness method employed by Joyce and other novelists, the historical precedent for which is, interestingly, found in works of Sterne. Through associative and impressionistic methods, Ruffilli's poems build and sustain an intense atmosphere of rear, guilt, and desire--Michael Palma.

OA discreet connoisseur of Italian poetry of this century will quickly see in Ruffilli's verses the continuity of a noble tradition, made of refined poverty, of contracted music, up to the extreme limit of inaudibility, . . . and he will think, then, of certain tangents, even thematic, between the present story and the unforgettable story of Annina in "Seme del piangere."ONGiovanni Raboni.