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Poems by Roberto Pazzi
Translated by Paul D’Agostino
Paul D’Agostino holds a PhD in Italian literature and is
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Italian at CUNY Brooklyn College,
where he also works in the Art Department as a writing advisor.
He writes in and translates among a number of different languages,
primarily Italian, German, French, Spanish and English, and he is
Assistant Editor of Journal of Italian Translation and Contributing
Editor at The L Magazine. He also runs Centotto, an art gallery in
Bushwick, Brooklyn, and is co-founder of a new project devoted
to art writing, After Vasari.
A resident of Ferrara, Roberto Pazzi is a writer of poetry,
prose and journalism whose works have been translated into dozens
of languages. Calma di vento, Il filo delle bugie and La gravità dei
corpi are a few of his collections of poetry, and Il Signore degli occhi,
L’erede, Conclave and La città volante are his most recent novels. He
has won or been nominated for dozens of writing prizes, including
the Hemingway Prize, the Premio Internazionale E. Montale,
the Premio Bergamo, the Premio Selezione Campiello, the Premio
Strega, the Superpremio Grinzane Cavour, the Superpremio
Penne-Mosca and the Premio SuperFlaiano. He was the director of
Ferrara Letteratura, and after twelve years of writing exclusively
for the Corriere della sera, he now writes for a number of different
periodicals including Il Resto del Carlino, La Nazione, Il Giorno and
The New York Times.