Rich and detailed poems by one of America's preeminent experimental writers. il cuore : the heart is a major new collection of poetry by Kathleen Fraser, one of the most significant poets of the last generation and a writer of unusual courage and inventiveness. From the intimacy of early poems to the syntactic play of her much-praised book, when new time folds up (1993), Fraser's work examines fields of possibility, where the visual, theoretical, and lyrical collide. This book provides a generous selection of work both new and old, tracing the development of her poetics over the last three decades. Rich with detail, these poems radicalize intention by embracing error, as in "boundayr," and reassert language innovation as a feminist strategy. They lead us toward "the infinity of a door only slightly ajar" and have established Fraser as one of America's preeminent experimental writers.

Giorgio Vecchi è stato, per oltre trentacinque anni, Professore Associato di Lingua Spagnola all'Università di Pavia. Sue poesie sono state premiate in concorsi locali e nazionali. Piacentino di nascita e di formazione, vive da anni in Oltrepò pavese. Nel 2021 ha pubblicato “Albergo Roma e dintorni”, un volume di racconti sulla Piacenza degli anni '50. È da poco uscito un suo volume di liriche dal titolo “I palpiti del tempo”. Le liriche presenti in questa raccolta parlano soprattutto dell'amore, del difficile rapporto con l'altra, una compagna reale o, spesso, inventata con cui il dialogo è in definitiva impossibile. Il poeta sembra interessato più che al contenuto alla forma/musica del verso in un approccio diretto al lettore che dovrebbe percepire il testo come un giuoco virtuoso tendente a creare una sorta di comunicazione con l'autore. Giorgio Vecchi has been Associate Professor of Spanish Language at the University of Pavia for over thirty-five years. His poems have won prizes in local and national competitions. He is a native of Piacenza by birth and education and has lived in Oltrepò Pavese for many years. In 2021 he published 'Albergo Roma e dintorni', a volume of short stories about Piacenza in the 1950s. A volume of his poems entitled 'I palpiti del tempo' has recently been published. The poems in this collection speak above all of love, of the difficult relationship with the other person, a real or, often, invented companion with whom dialogue is ultimately impossible. The poet seems more interested in the form/music of the verse than in the content, in a direct approach to the reader, who should perceive the text as a virtuous game intending to create a kind of communication with the author.

An international bestseller with tremendous word-of-mouth appeal, Follow Your Heart is a bittersweet, heartwarming novel spanning generations and teaching the universal truths about life, love, and what lies within each of us. Originally published in Italy, Follow Your Heart won the coveted Premio Donna Citta di Roma and sold over 800,000 copies in that country alone before hitting bestseller lists throughout the rest of Europe. Now North American readers can enjoy the novel that has won over the world. It begins in late autumn 1992 as an elderly Italian woman, prompted by the knowledge of her encroaching death, sits down to write a letter to her granddaughter now grown and living in far-off America. Through these moving reflections, we see one life laid bare--joys, sorrows, regrets, and all. And through the eyes of a woman nearing the end of her days, we come to understand what life experience has taught her: that no matter what the stakes, we must look within ourselves and gather the courage to follow our hearts.

Cuore (Heart) is a children's novel by the novelist, journalist, short story writer, and poet Edmondo De Amicis. The novel, inspired by his children Furio and Ug, is his best known work. This fully illustrated edition, has been translated from the Italian by Isabel Hapgood.

How do we represent ouselves and the cultures we live in? Is it possible to trace any boundaries between reality and self-representation? Because the self represented is the product of a process of selection and choice, in many ways to represent the self is, often simultaneously, to create the self and negate the self. What, then, becomes of the self once it is represented? Because the process of self-representation cumulates in a tangible result and given that any representation of the self is necessarily a construct which aims to render visible or knowable in concrete form the unseen and unknown, self-representation is vulnerable to assessments of its naturalness or artificiality, its honesty or deceit. Many issues affect the author or artist’s self-representation, both as process and form: the medium through which the self will be represented, the motivation for representing oneself, and the role of the audience, to name only a few relevant factors. This book explores the multifaceted nature of self-representation in relation to culture from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance up to contemporary Italian, American and Australian culture with reference to concepts and questions connected to literature, poetry, philosophy, theology, history, ethnicity studies, gender studies, and visual arts.