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Poetry. Translated from the Italian, and with a foreword by Steven Grieco- Rathgeb. Selected from seven collections and presented in a fine Italian-English edition, these are poems by a prolific philosopher, novelist and postmodern poet written on the edge of lyricism, tempered by a hardheaded realism and often set in a nocturnal mode.
"Bertoldo's poetic production may... be seen as a long series of lucid attempts to break up the `weak' style of poetry. His is, however, very much an insider's job: he stands inside the house, and uses, reuses, and processes the materials he finds there. His apparent attempts to put these together into some coherent whole always meet with failure: he always allows the fabric to be rent by the outside world, which powerfully encroaches on this cozy little place with its strident and meaningless cacophony, but also with its urgent wake-up calls. Any temptation the poet may have to slide backwards into lyricism is wiped out by his own harsh rhythms, the clusters of distorted, dissonant words and phrases often made up of broken conversations overheard at poetry readings, coffee shops, supermarkets, intellectual gatherings, church homilies."—from the Foreword
