Semicerchio - Rivista di poesia comparata

The essay takes as its object Il primo lunedi' del mondo, the most recent LP released by the Italian independent rock band Virginiana Miller (the lyrics for which are published in the body of the essay, with glosses). It offers a holistic reading of the album as an exploration of the different 'ideas of love' articulated in classical western cultural paradigms. Through a close reading of the lyrics and their musical context, the essay illuminates the links they establish with the treatments of the notion of love shared by foundational moments in theological, philosophical, ethical, and psychological discourses in our culture.
(Princeton University, simonem@princeton.edu)

Paolo Divizia, Leonard Cohen e i cantautori italiani: i casi di Fabrizio De André e Francesco De Gregori

The article deals with the influence of Leonard Cohen on Italian songwriters Fabrizio De André and Francesco De Gregori. After an introductory section in which the term "cantautore" (songwriter) is analysed alongside with the overlooked concept of "recorded/performed music", which still is not perceived as something really different from music-to-be-performed, while "theatre performed" has gained the status of a different art (i.e. cinema), the article quickly reviews the different type of influence exerted by Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen on Fabrizio De André and Francesco De Gregori, and then analyses in details the quotations and hints to Cohen's Story of Isaac which are found in De Gregori's La casa di Hilde.
(Masarykova univerzita, Brno - paolodivizia@yahoo.it)

Franco Buffoni is one of the most celebrated modern Italian poets. His translations and his rich ideas on translation theory have been much less studied, however. This essay investigates Buffoni's work as a translator, specifically a translator of poetry, as seen predominantly in his two quaderni di traduzioni. As Buffoni is a major theorist of translation studies, the approach adopted here is to use his own methodology to examine his translations.

Rassegna di poesia internazionale

Poesia classica
Helaine L. Smith, They sang "beyond the reach of envy". Callimachus and Sappho (Helaine L. Smith)

Poesia angloafricana
Isole galleggianti. Poesia femminile sudafricana 1948-2008 (Carmen Concilio)

Poesia ceca
Milan Nápravník, Il nido del buio (Anna-Maria Perissutti)
Rapporti di errore. Sedici voci nuove della poesia ceca contemporanea (Anna-Maria Perissutti)

Poesia italiana
Cristina Alziati, Come non piangenti (Fabio Zinelli)
Maria Grazia Calandrone, La vita chiara (Ambra Zorat)
Gabriel del Sarto, Sul vuoto (Daniele Claudi)
Giovanna Frene Il noto, il nuovo. Appunti postumi sulla natura del potere e della storia (Riccardo Donati)
Andrea Inglese, Commiato da Andromeda (Luciano Mazziotta)
Jolanda Insana, Turbativa d'incanto (Giancarlo Alfano)
Claudia Pozzana, Scelte (Antonella Bartoloni Saint Omer)
Alessandro Raveggi, La trasfigurazione degli animali in bestie (Alessandro De Francesco)
Massimo Sannelli, Scuola di poesia (Fabio Zinelli)
Federico Scaramuccia, Come una lacrima (Cecilia Bello Minciacchi)
Eva Taylor, Volti di parole (Cecilia Bello Minciacchi)
Patrizia Valduga, Libro delle laudi (Giancarlo Alfano)
Alessandro Zattarin, Antenati. Poesie e racconti (Francesca Latini)

Poesia statunitense
Anne Carson, Nox (Maria Anna Mariani)
Anne Carson, Antropologia dell'acqua (Antonella Francini)
Henri Cole, Autoritratto con gatti (Antonella Francini)
Matthew Cooperman, Still: Of the Earth as the Ark Which Does Not Move (Richard Deming)
Christine Koschel, Nel sogno in bilico (Camilla Miglio)
Barbara Pumhösel, Gedankenflussabwärts (Paolo Scotini)

Strumenti
Susanna Barsella, In the light of angels. Angelology and cosmology in Dante's Divina Commedia (Simone Marchesi)
Maurizio Cucchi, Cronache di poesia del Novecento (Marco Corsi)
Luigi Marfè, Oltre la 'fine dei viaggi'. I resoconti dell'altrove nella letteratura contemporanea (Davide Papotti)

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