Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies

'Anyone who wants to read and engage with the poetry written in Italy during this time period will find this a remarkable volume whose structure and content challenges the very way in which we define anthologies.' -- Elena Coda, School of Languages and Cultures, Purdue University 'The publication of Those Who From Afar Look Like Flies is a major event for the English-speaking world. This impressive, ground-breaking anthology significantly changes the image of contemporary Italian poetry.' -- Italo Testa, Dipartimento di Antichistica, Lingue, Educazione, Filosofia, Universita degli studi di Parma

Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies is an anthology of poems and essays that aims to provide an organic profile of the evolution of Italian poetry after World War II.

Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies is an anthology of poems and essays that aims to provide an organic profile of the evolution of Italian poetry after World War II. Beginning with the birth of Officina and Il Verri, and culminating with the crisis of the mid-seventies, this tome features works by such poets as Pasolini, Pagliarani, Rosselli, Sanguineti and Zanzotto, as well as such forerunners as Villa and Cacciatore.

Each section of this anthology, organized chronologically, is preceded by an introductory note and documents every stylistic or substantial change in the poetics of a group or individual. For each poet, critic, and translator a short biography and bibliography is also provided.