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Emanuel Carnevali

Born

in Firenze, Italy

December 04, 1897

Died

January 11, 1942

Genre

Poetry, Fiction, Memoir

Influences

Arthur Rimbaud; Walt Whitman ...more

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Emanuel Carnevali, “The Black Poet” as William Carlos William once said, born in 1897, Florence, Italy. He immigrated to the U.S. just before World War I at the age of 16 and lived in the streets of New York where he held a series of menial jobs and learned the english language through the street advertising. He later moved to Chicago where he met and attended illustrious american poets like Ezra Pound, Williams Carlos Williams and Sherwood Anderson.

When writing the novel The First God (il primo dio), he portrayed his life and relationship with the United States transforming America almost into a character.

In his poetry and prose, Carnevali prized immediacy of expression and vivid depictions of suffering. In 1919, Harriet Monroe invited C ...more

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Average rating: 3.88 · 241 ratings · 32 reviews · 22 distinct works • Similar authors

	Il primo dio - Poesie scelte - Racconti e scritti critici by Emanuel Carnevali, Maria Pia Carnevali (Editor) 3.95 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1978	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il primo Dio 3.85 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1967 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Racconti di un uomo che ha fretta by Emanuel Carnevali, Maria Pia Carnevali (Translator), Gabriel Cacho Millet (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1925 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Racconti Ritrovati really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Furnished Rooms 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voglio disturbare l’America. Il Primo Dio.: Lettere a Croce e Papini. Romanzo autobiografico. 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Corteo di personaggi a Villa Rubazziana by Emanuel Carnevali, Francesco Cappellini (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Works, Volume One: Prose, Selected Letters 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Finché Dio ci vede: Poesie by Emanuel Carnevali, Daniele Gigli (translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disturbando l'America 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars