{"product_id":"the-living-theatre-paperback","title":"The Living Theatre - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBianca Tarozzi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJeanne Foster\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eAlan Williamson\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA vivid chronicle of Italy's rich history--from WWII to present--these narrative poems sing of a country's vibrant and resilient people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBianca Tarozzi\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Bologna in 1941. Her father was a political prisoner under Mussolini, and then a Senator after the war. She received a degree from Ca'Foscari in Venice, where she also taught. Until her recent retirement, she taught English and American Literature at the University of Verona. The recipient of numerous literary honors, including a residency at the Villa Serbelloni, she has translated into Italian the works of: Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, James Merrill, Richard Wilbur, A. E. Housman, Denise Levertov, and Louise Gluck. She has written and edited several scholarly books, among them a study of Robert Lowell's sonnets, which predated most American work on the subject. Also the author of many books of poetry, she began writing poems in 1947, and continues to this day. A novel about her parents' marriage, \u003ci\u003eUna luce settle\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eA Subtle Light\u003c\/i\u003e) was published in 2015. She currently splits her time between Venice and Milan, Italy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeanne Foster\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emerita of English Literature and Creative Writing at Saint Mary's College of California. Her poems have appear widely in such places as the \u003ci\u003eHudson Review, Triquarterly, Ploughshares, Literary Imagination, \u003c\/i\u003e and others. Her most recent collection is \u003ci\u003eGoodbye, Silver Sister\u003c\/i\u003e (Northwestern, 2015). She is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eAppetite: Food as Metaphor\u003c\/i\u003e (BOA, 2002). \u003ci\u003eThe First Workshop: a Memoir of James Wright\u003c\/i\u003e was published in American Poetry Review (2001). Her critical work, \u003ci\u003eA Music of Grace\u003c\/i\u003e, explores the sacred in contemporary American poetry (Lang, 1995). For \u003ci\u003eInstants of Faith\u003c\/i\u003e (1985), she translated a group of 25 poems by Juan Ramon Jimenez. Other poetry collections include \u003ci\u003eGreat Horned Owl\u003c\/i\u003e (White Pine, 1980) and \u003ci\u003eA Blessing of Safe Travel\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the \u003ci\u003eQuarterly Review of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e Poetry Award (Princeton, 1980). A finalist for the 2015 Tennessee Williams\/New Orleans Literary Festival Poetry Award, she has received grants from the Woodrow Wilson, CAPS, MacDowell, and St. Lawrence foundations. She is also an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister. She currently divides her time between Berkeley, CA, and Le Convertoie, a medieval borgo in Tuscany. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan Williamson\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Davis, and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. He is the author of five books of poems: \u003ci\u003ePresence\u003c\/i\u003e (Knopf, 1983), \u003ci\u003eThe Muse of Distance\u003c\/i\u003e (Knopf, 1988), \u003ci\u003eLove and the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e (Chicago, 1995), \u003ci\u003eRes Publica\u003c\/i\u003e (Chicago, 1998), and \u003ci\u003eThe Pattern More Complicated: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (Chicago, 2004). His books of literary criticism are \u003ci\u003ePity the Monsters: The Political Vision of Robert Lowell\u003c\/i\u003e (Yale, 1974), \u003ci\u003eIntrospection and Contemporary Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (Harvard, 1984), \u003ci\u003eEloquence and Mere Life\u003c\/i\u003e (Michigan, 1994), \u003ci\u003eAlmost a Girl: Male Writers and Female Identification\u003c\/i\u003e (Virginia, 2001), and \u003ci\u003eWesternness: A Meditation\u003c\/i\u003e (Virginia, 2006). He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and The National Endowment for the Arts. He has been a referee and\/or panelist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the MacArthur Foundation. He has published other translations from the Italian, including a complete version of Pavese's \u003ci\u003eDeath Will Come and Look at Me with Your Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e in the American Poetry Review. He currently lives in Berkeley, CA.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760101097760,"sku":"9781942683513","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/074882420ebb9ad6f856ce5966e89ea8.webp?v=1780171652","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-living-theatre-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}