{"title":"Adam Giannelli","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdam Giannelli is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Virginia, where he was a Hoyns Fellow in the MFA program. His poems and translations have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eNew England Review, Kenyon Review, Field, Colorado Review, New American Writing, Two Lines, \u003c\/em\u003eand elsewhere. He is the editor of a book of critical essays titled \u003cem\u003eHigh Lonesome: On the Poetry of Charles Wright \u003c\/em\u003e(Oberlin College Press, 2006). His translation of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/marosa-di-giorgio\" title=\"Marosa di Giorgio\"\u003eMarosa Di Giorgio\u003c\/a\u003e’s poems, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/collections\/translations\/products\/diadem-selected-poems\" title=\"Diadem\"\u003eDiadem\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003ewas published by BOA Editions in 2012. For more information about Adam Giannelli, visit \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.adamgiannelli.com\/\" title=\"Visit Adam Giannelli's website\"\u003eadamgiannelli.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"diadem-selected-poems","title":"Diadem: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarosa di Giorgio was born in Salto, Uruguay, in 1932. Descended from Italian immigrants of Tuscan origin, she and her sister Nidia were raised Catholics in the countryside. Her first book, \u003cem\u003ePoemas\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 1953. Also a theatre actress in the 1950s-1960s, she participated in almost thirty productions. In 1978, after the death of her father, she moved to Montevideo, where she lived until she died of cancer in 2004. Like Walt Whitman, di Giorgio expanded the same work throughout her career:\u003cem\u003e Los Papeles Salvajes\u003c\/em\u003e, her collected poetry, which unites fourteen books. Since her poems inhabit the same imaginative world, they can be read as one long meditation, which di Giorgio described as a forest in which she planted more trees.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eExcerpt from\u003cem\u003e Diadem: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Green, pink, ringed, hand drawn. It\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es said they have relations with themselves and are visible when they shudder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOr rigid like a finger they manage to drink in the fountain of roses. They’re related to roses, bromeliads, and the pear tree. Some consider them only reveries that represent the sins of men.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut I, since I was a girl, in the light of the sun and moon, believe in them; I know they’re real.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI saw them open their lips, black as the night, their gold teeth, after an almond, a pumpkin seed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo face one’s own mark, playing and fighting; and in love without others, to twist until death.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eDiadem: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Since the publication of her first books in the mid-1950s, Marosa di Giorgio has introduced a seemingly indefinable element into Uruguayan literature. Angel Rama and Roberto Echavarren regard her as one of the most original and brilliant descendants of the Uruguayan-born Lautreamont. Other commentators portray her as an eccentric whose poetic prose is virtually synonymous with the idiosyncratic … She is therefore a writer who has been praised but also marginalized – insofar as she is repeatedly held up as the ‘mad woman’ of contemporary Uruguayan letters – because of a critical tendency to theorize negatively the very aspect of di Giorgio’s surrealist practices for which she has become most famous: her visionary escapism.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Kathryn A. Kopple, the\u003cem\u003e Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2012\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8420232645,"sku":"9781934414972","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/diadem.jpeg?v=1527683208"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/Adam_Giannelli.jpg?v=1526054398","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/adam-giannelli.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}