The Contagion of Matter

by Valerio Magrelli, Anthony Molino (Translator), Jonathan Galassi (Foreword)

Magrelli writes with a capacious grasp of the enormous, still-to-be discovered potentialities of the great treasure house of Italian. His poetry is a soliloquy written with a pencil and small notebook during the latest and most silent hours of the night. It is poetry that looks at itself, but at the sight of its thought, vanishes. Here, a great deal of precious cargo has made it intact to the shores of the English-speaking world, and we are enriched by the arrival of such rich, strange and new matter.

171 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2000

About the author

Valerio Magrelli is an Italian poet.

He graduated in philosophy at the University of Rome and is an expert in French literature which he has taught and teaches at University of Pisa and University of Cassino.