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Nearsights: Selected Poems of Valerio Magrelli

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English, Italian (translation)
Original Italian

89 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

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Valerio Magrelli

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Valerio Magrelli is an Italian poet.

He graduated in philosophy at the University of Rome and is an expert in French literature which he has taught and teaches at University of Pisa and University of Cassino.

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December 26, 2024
When everything touched by the moon, likewise submits to the sigh of tides or to the sweet sways of the eclipse.
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August 15, 2011
In this dazzling,
mapped-out delirium,
I still don't know
whether to be the country I'm crossing
or the journey across.

(In questio delirio
luminoso e geografico
io non so ancora
se essere il paese che attraverso
o il viaggio che vi compio.)

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I am what is missing
from the world I inhabit,
the One
I'll never meet.
Spinning, I coincide
with what I lack.
I am my own eclipse,
my absence, melancholy,
the geometrical object
I'll need forever to do without.

(Io sono ciò che manca
dal mondo in cui vivo,
colui che tra tutti
non incontrerò mai.
Ruotando su me stesso ora coincido
con ciò che mi è sottrato.
Io sono la mia eclissi
la contumacia e la malinconia
l'oggetto geometrico
di cui per sempre dovrò fare a meno.)
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