In Adolescence and Night, Luigi Fontanella entrusts his imagination with t wresting the years of his youth from an inevitable destiny of oblivion. His poetic idiom combines sharp terseness and a metaphysical dimension, where simple occurrences of a faraway time and place come alive again and transcend their historical specificity to assume universal significance.
In Adolescence and Night, Luigi Fontanella entrusts his imagination with t wresting the years of his youth from an inevitable destiny of oblivion. His poetic idiom combines sharp terseness and a metaphysical dimension, where simple occurrences of a faraway time and place come alive again and transcend their historical specificity to assume universal significance.
Luigi Fontanella lives in New York and Florence, Italy. A professor of Italian Literature, he has been the chair of the Department of European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Stony Brook University. He has published collections of poetry, essays, and stories. Among the most recent titles are Pasolini rilegge Pasolini (Archinto, 2005, translated into several languages); L'angelo della neve. Poesie di viaggio (Mondadori, Almanacco dello Specchio, 2009); Bertgang (Moretti & Vitali 2012, winner of the Premio I Murazzi); Migrating Words. Italian Writers in the United States (Bordighera Press, 2012); Disunita ombra (Archinto, 2013, winner of the Premio Nazionale Frascati); L'adolescenza e la notte (Passigli, 2015, Pref. by Paolo Lagazzi, Pascoli Prize, Viareggio-Giuria, Prize); La morte rosa (Stampa, 2015, Pref. by Maurizio Cucchi); Monte Stella (Passigli, 2020); Raccontare la poesia 1970-2020. Saggi, ricordi, testimonianze critiche (Moretti & Vitali, 2021); Tre passi nel desiderio. Tre Atti Unici (Neos, 2021).
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