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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: Boy Asleep Under the Sun: Versions of Sandro Penna
  title info:
    title: Directory of open access books
  name:
    name part: Peter Valente.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: aut
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Poetry.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    publisher: punctum Books
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    extent: 1 online resource (1 electronic resource (192 pages))
  abstract: Annotation "Younger than Umberto Saba and Eugenio Montale but older than Pier Paolo Pasolini, who championed him, Sandro Penna has been virtually unknown in the English speaking world. With abruptness and clarity, these exquisite and sometimes disturbing lyrics come at you as if they had just been discovered, taken directly from the secret hand of the poet. In Peter Valente's extraordinary "variations" of texts dating from 1927 until Penna's death in 1977, the transmission is electric." Ammiel Alcalay Peter Valente's first encounter with Sandro Penna's poetry was while translating Pier Paolo Pasolini. At the time Valente was reading a biography on Pasolini and learned of his close friendship with Penna. Pasolini insisted that among serious readers of poetry Penna could not be ignored. Born in Perugia on June 12, 1906, Sandro Penna lived most of his life in Rome (he died there on January 21, 1977), except for a brief period in Milan where he worked as a library clerk. When Pasolini arrived in Rome in 1950 he sought out Penna to "show him around." He knew that Penna was in love with the same ragazzi who prowled the outskirts of Rome. In his poetry Penna clearly says who he is and how he feels. That is a rare enough quality these days. He moves away from the trappings of identity toward an honest expression of love. In Penna's work the beautiful is not conscious of itself and is therefore erotic: "Is not the beauty of those who are unaware of their beauty / more beautiful than those who are aware?" He is critical of those who hide their desires behind a thin facade of modesty: Here they are, these lords of life. They are very modest, indeed. Even with their senses fully aroused, they manage to offend no one. Penna never hid his sexuality in interviews. He once told a reporter (who probably had to pay dearly for the interview), "I am not a homosexual. I am a pederasta ... Homosexuality is a privilege." Penna's homosexuality is complicated in one sense by a moral dilemma…
  table of contents: Foreword -- A note on the translation -- Poems (1927-1955) -- Notes (1938-1949) -- The strange joy of living (1949-1955) -- Sacred and profane (1927-1957) -- Oddities (1957-1976) -- The sleepless traveller (1977) -- About the translator.
  note: English.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Penna, Sandro
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Penna, Sandro
  subject:
    topic: Poetry by individual poets
  subject:
    topic: Italian poetry
  subject:
    topic: Poetry as Topic
  subject:
    topic: Poésie
  subject:
    topic: poetry
  subject:
    topic: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: love, translation, gay poetry, Sandro Penna, Italian poetry, homosexuality
  classification: PQ4835.E47 B693 2014
  classification: 851.914
  identifier: 9780692296936
  identifier: 069229693X
  identifier: 22573/cats2330943 JSTOR
  identifier: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.2353977
  record info:
    record content source: SFB
    record creation date: 151216
    record change date: 20230512212302.3
    record identifier: in00004691561
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng