Contemporary Italian Women Poets: A Bilingual Anthology

Including 25 poets published since 1950, Contemporary Italian Women Poets: A Bilingual Anthology introduces American readers to poetry that, in the words of Luciana Frezza, ""won't stop returning."" University of Iowa associate professor of Italian Cinzia Sartini Blum and Lara Trubowitz, a lecturer in rhetoric at the Univ. of California at Berkeley, present their own selections and translations of a plethora of poems, with the original a fronte. ( June)