Marginal State

by Francesco Levato

Distilled verse and hard imagery exposes the effects of contemporary social, cultural, and political practices on the human condition. Nothing in the poems is named by indirection to achieve a managed effect. The good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautiful are present without artifice or distortion - the truth will out. You will see clearly and act or close your eyes, ears, and heart to life as it is and live on in your imaginary shell of avoidance. Be brave. See the world for what it is.

64 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published June 8, 2006

About the author

Poet, translator, and filmmaker Francesco Levato is the author of four books of poetry: Endless, Beautiful, Exact; Elegy for Dead Languages; War Rug, a book length documentary poem; and Marginal State. He has translated into English the works of Italian poets Tiziano Fratus, Creaturing, and Fabiano Alborghetti, The Opposite Shore. His work has been published internationally in journals and anthologies, both in print and online. He has collaborated and performed with various composers, including Philip Glass, and his cinépoetry has been exhibited in galleries and featured at film festivals in Berlin, Chicago, New York, and elsewhere. He is the founder and director of the Chicago School of Poetics, holds an MFA in poetry from New England College, and is pursuing a PhD in English Studies at Illinois State University.