Enventarse na vita/To Invent a Life

Poems in the Trentino Dialect and English

by Michael F. Capobianco


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Softcover
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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 23/01/2013

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 100
ISBN : 9781481709606

About the Book

Translating these poems with Antonia Dalpiaz has been one of the highlights of my writing career. They are so beautiful that it sometimes seemed to me that they were translating themselves! You will find within: poems of nature, poems of love, and many which defy genre classification. Dalpiaz wrote them in the dialect of her home town of Trento, Italy (trentino), and if you know some Italian you should be able to appreciate the wonderful charm of this dialect. This is why we wanted to publish this book in bilingual form, each poem in the original followed by the English. Enjoy!


About the Author

Antonia Dalpiaz’s work, both poetry and prose, appears in many anthologies. She has written plays both in dialect and in Italian, and has three books published. “An Imperfect Woman”, “A Birthday Gift”, and “Double Skin”. She lives in Trento, Italy with her husband and has two children. Michael F. Capobianco is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at St John’s University, New York. He has been writing and translating for some forty years and has ten books and several short stories and poems published some of which have won awards. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, Teresa.