Nothing Is Without Future: The Poems of Piero Rivolta Book 1 - Bilingual Edition - Italian/English

by Piero Rivolta

Nothing Is Without Future is Volume 1 of The Poems of Award-Winning Poet and Novelist Piero Rivolta. Full of striking and sensual images, Piero Rivolta’s poetry reflects his appreciation for beauty wherever he finds it – in women, falling snow, sunsets, Mediterranean cities and the sea. A series of lyric poems tell a love story – actually two love stories – about a young man who is torn between two women. The first, an alluring brunette, offers an easy-going romance that has no future. The other, a woman with malachite green eyes, puts him through an emotional wringer, but holds out the possibility of a lasting relationship. In the process, the young man experiences love in all its aspects, from passion to melancholy, ecstasy to anguish, and ultimately serenity. Nothing Is Without Future may not be as dark and erotic as “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Love” by Pablo Neruda. Nor is it as bitingly satirical as the love poems of Catullus, the Roman poet. Yet Rivolta’s evocative lines reveal as complex and layered an understanding of the emotions that roil the heart of all romantic lovers. With the original Italian poems alongside the English translations, readers have the opportunity to experience the lyrics in both languages. PRAISE FOR THE POETRY OF PIERO "Piero Rivolta's poetry is a mix of delicate sounds plucking the strings of memory. It celebrates both melancholy and passion. He is what might be called a universal romantic, someone for whom the meaning of an object or scene persists without binding him to a solitary history; but it is his talent to evoke the power of memory that gives his poetry a flavor beyond the mere stirring of words. Though his lines are short, they suggest lasting sentences of thought, ending in a "cry of happiness" for things endured." --- Martin Tucker, Author of "While There is Penultimate Poems"

112 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2018

About the author

An avid sailor and lover of the sea, Piero Rivolta is an award-winning, published poet and author of several books, including:

Just One Scent: The Rest is God, 2nd edition (2015)
Going By Sea (2014)
One Life Many Lives (2014)
Journey Beyond 2012 (2012)
The Castaway (2010)
Just One Scent: The Rest Is God (2010)
Nothing Is Without Future (2009)
Alex and the Color of the Wind (2008)
Sunset in Sarasota (2007)
Bridge Through the Stars (2017)

Born in Desio, Italy in 1941, Piero earned a doctorate in mechanical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano at age 24. Two years later, after his father’s unexpected death, he became the world’s youngest CEO of a car manufacturing firm, Iso Rivolta. Beginning in the 1940s, the company designed and built motorcycles and the popular egg-shaped, front-door Isetta bubble car. Until Rivolta sold it in 1972, when the golden age of the small, independent Italian car manufacturer ended, he continued to develop and produce various models. Among them were the highly esteemed Iso Rivolta GT, the famous Grifo luxury sports car and the Formula 1 racecar, the Iso Rivolta Marlboro.

In addition to his writing and work in the automobile industry, Piero has raised jumping horses in Italy, run a spinning mill in Brazil and engaged in real estate development in Europe, Central America and the United States.

Deeply involved in the arts, Rivolta helps to organize many cultural events, and is cofounder and president of the annual La Musica chamber music festival in Sarasota, Florida, where he resides.