SubscribeAugust 12th, 2010
Amelia Rosselli, poetry in madness and sadness
I’ve been reading a compilation called The Dragonfly (named after her most famous poem). There are bits that rocket straight out of the known universe
Then it swelled up the sack of tears but it wasn't punctured I'll keep it in a little Greco-Roman vase he'll bring it to my house triumphant elephant of pain!
and there are brilliant moments of clarity, breath-catching in their honesty
The objective and determining mind is a neat trick. Cosmopolitan wisdom may be the best of our canastras. The self-determining mind may be a cheap trick. Convinced of the contrary I pondered the country's internal crises and observed adrift on the town's principal river a sardine can.
She is a political poet who writes about the fractured world of Europe in the build up to the second world war. She was born in 1930 to into an Italian Jewish educated and politically active family.
She committed suicide in 1996.
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