The Secret of Glass – Poems by Corrado Calabrò
Book Presentation
A collection of Italian contemporary poems presented by Mrs. Grace Cavalieri, poet, Dr. Joseph Abraham Levi, George Washington University, and by the author Corrado Calabrò.
A Life on Its Own Line – The Secret of Glass – Poems by Corrado Calabrò
English translations by Moira Egan and Damiano Abeni
Entasis Press – Washington, DC 2012
“Corrado Calabrò pursues, with a tension that is both lyrical and philosophical, his own ultimate confession…..Calabrò orchestrates stunning concerts for the mind, woven among a merciless feeling for existence, love, and time.”
Pietro Cimatti
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Grace Cavalieri produces “The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress” for public radio. She’s the author of 16 books and chapbooks of poetry. She holds the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, the Bordighera Award, Columbia Award, Pen- Fiction Award, George Garrett Prize, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Silver Medal. Her recent book What I Would Do For Love, poems in the voice of 18th Century writer Mary Wollstonecraft (Jacaranda Press, 2004), has been translated into Italian by Sabine Pascarelli with the title Cosa farei per amore (The Bunny and the Crocodile Press, 2012). Her latest play Anna Nicole: Blonde Glory opened in New York City in 2011.
Joseph A. Levi holds a Ph.D. in Romance Philology (Portuguese, Italian, and Medieval Spanish) from the University of Wisconsin at Madison; a Laurea in Swahili, Arabic, and Islamic Studies, from the Istituto UniversitarioOrientale, Naples, Italy; and a Licenciatura in Portuguese Language and Lusophone Studies/History of the Portuguese Discoveries, from the Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. Dr. Levi’s publications, research, and academic interest cover: Portuguese Language and Lusophone studies; Romance Philology, Linguistics, and Dialectology (Italian, Portuguese, and Medieval Spanish); Medieval studies; Italian and Sephardic Jewry; Missionaries in Africa and Asia (16th-18th centuries); Protestantism in the Lusophone world; African and Islamic Studies. Prior to joining George Washington University, Joseph Levi taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Georgia, the University of Iowa, Rhode Island College, the University of Hong Kong, and the Universidade de São José in Macau.
Corrado Calabrò was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy. His first collection of poems, written when he was eighteen/ twenty years old, was published in 1960 with the title Prima attesa (Parma, Guanda). In the following years he published more than eighteen books of poetry, among which: Agavi in fiore (Napoli, SEN 1976); Vuoto d’aria (Parma, Guanda 1979 e 1980); Presente anteriore (Milano, Scheiwiller 1981); Mittente sconosciuta (Milano, Franco Maria Ricci 1984), Rosso d’Alicudi (Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori 1992; Lo stesso rischio (Milano, Crocetti 2000); Le ancore infeconde (Roma, Pagine 2001), Una vita per il suo verso (Milano, Oscar Mondadori 2002); Poesie d’amore (Roma, Newton Compton 2004); La stella promessa (Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori “Lo Specchio” 2009); T’amo di due amori (Milano, Vallardi 2009); Dimmelo per SMS (Milano, Vallardi 2009); Rispondimi per SMS (Milano, Vallardi 2013). His poems have been translated into Chinese, Czech, Danish, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Romenian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian.
Calabrò’s poems have been recorded in many cd’s by distinguished interpreters such as Daniela Barra, Riccardo Cucciolla, Giancarlo Giannini, Walter Maestosi, Achille Millo, Paola Pitagora and Alberto Rossatti. Some texts have been performed, sometimes with the accompaniment of a music score, at many theatres in Italy and abroad.
Among his numerous critical essays: Per la sopravvivenza della poesia uccidiamo i poeti, in “Poesia”, n. 143, ottobre 2000; Il poeta alla griglia, in “L’illuminista”, dicembre 2003; Rappresentazione e realtà, in “Nuovi Argomenti”, aprile/giugno 2011.
Calabrò also wrote a novel: Ricorda di dimenticarla (Roma, Newton Compton 1999).
For his literary work Corrado Calabrò was awarded with a laurea honoris causa by Mechnikov University, Odessa (Ukraine), in 1997 and Vest Din University, Timisoara (Romania), in 2000.
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