My Poems Won't Change the World av Patrizia Cavalli

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<p><i>''Two hours ago I fell in love</i><br><i>and trembled, and tremble still,</i><br><i>and haven''t a clue whom I should tell''</i><br><br>From one of the truly singular and beloved poets of contemporary Italy, these are poems of the self, the body, pasta, cats, the city and - always, and above all - love. This volume is the first substantial gathering of the best of Patrizia Cavalli''s work from her first six collections, from 1974 to 2006, translated by a selection of renowned poets. By turns thoughtful and sly, sensual and comic, charismatic and profound, these are works perfectly attuned to the pleasures and pains of everyday life and love.<br><br>''The most intensely ethical poetry in Italian literature of the twentieth century'' Giorgio Agamben <br><br>''Amazingly fresh and surprising. The world does change, in the telling'' John Ashbery<br><br>Edited by Gini Alhadeff</p>