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Grace Paley è una delle intellettuali più affascinanti della scena americana del secondo Novecento: militante pacifista e femminista, autrice di magistrali racconti, ha al suo attivo anche una ricca produzione poetica; questo volume, uscito all'indomani della sua morte, raccoglie versi scritti fra il 2000 e il 2007. È un diario in poesia che registra la vecchiaia, la malattia, la scomparsa degli amici, quello che resta dell'amore quando la fine si avvicina. Ma come sempre nella scrittura di Grace Paley, il mondo irrompe nell'intimità e l'ironia nel dolore: si possono allevare nipoti e denunciare nuove guerre, accompagnare vecchie amiche alla tomba giurando di non cancellarle dalla rubrica del telefono, ricordare ai poeti che il loro compito non è mettere insieme rime, ma dare voce a chi non ne ha. "Credo nella fedeltà alle mie idee originarie, è il modo che ho per oppormi alle mode imperanti". E nella parola fìdelity è riassunto il testamento della scrittrice.
- ISBN: 8875213054
- Casa Editrice: Minimum Fax
- Pagine: 188
- Data di uscita: 18-03-2011
Recensioni
Published when the author was eighty-four, this collection reflects, in part, the author's reflections on that period in her life. The author's style involves all lower case with the exception of the word "I." Spaces, rather than punctuation, mark pauses. The author's style does not resonate well wi Leggi tutto
Often deceptively conversational -- simple, meditative and yet full of feeling -- Grace Paley's poetry makes you slow down for a few breaths. Reading this book felt like going to Vermont. I'd actually rate this somewhere between 3.5 and 4 stars -- I loved the poems at the beginning, but toward the en Leggi tutto
I love Grace Paley's stories and poetry and she is to me an icon of American literature. I once sat at her knee as she read at Bennington (Vermont). It was the summer of 1979, and I was there for a writer's retreat for a month, listening on a regular basis to writers reading their work, talking with Leggi tutto
I'm always a little wary when a book cover announces that these poems were completed "just before" someone's death. The wariness was warranted here--a few poems offer touching insight into old age, including lost friends, lost faculties, and lost possibilities, as in "On Occasion," which begins, "I
The last work from the recently deceased octogerarian. A small book of poems. Smart, muscular musings on long- life, love, family. Grace, a tiny fireball of robust gentleness and electric pacifism was, in her poetry and fiction, a modern, more urban Emily Dickinson in in that she is direct, no-nonse Leggi tutto
This is Grace Paley's last collection of poems, and actually was published posthumously. I haven't read much of her other poetry, although I know some of her prose, but I really like this collection as a whole, and its exquisite attention to the terrible nature of dying, losing friends and family me Leggi tutto
This is the sort of poetry that makes me scratch my head in wonder. Am I not smart enough to understand this poet? Why are there spaces in the middle of the line? How am I supposed to read this? I didn't find the subject matter transcendent, or the turns of phrase memorable. #Bookbingonw - poetry
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