In this Book
- My Name on the Wind: Selected Poems of Diego Valeri
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
This bilingual edition is a selection of fiftyone poems representing all phases of Valeri's extraordinarily long career, from 1910 to 1976. Also included is an essay by Valeri, in which he records the sensations--and reflections on his work--that were occasioned by his reading the proof for the collected edition of his poems.
Originally published in 1989.
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- From Poesie (1962; 1967)
- pp. 1-4
- Leaves, Falling Leaves...
- pp. 5-6
- Vicenza 1915
- pp. 7-8
- Spring in Ravenna
- pp. 9-16
- Those Mornings Long Ago
- pp. 17-18
- Evening in the Mountains
- pp. 19-20
- Sister Gesuina
- pp. 23-26
- Winter Song
- pp. 33-34
- Anacreontic
- pp. 37-38
- Flower of Nothingness
- pp. 41-42
- The Vinyard
- pp. 47-48
- Dark Olive Trees
- pp. 49-50
- On the Shore of Sleep
- pp. 53-54
- Exile Camp
- pp. 57-64
- In Passing
- pp. 67-68
- Blade of Wind
- pp. 69-70
- The Air Still Chilly
- pp. 71-74
- Summer Sky
- pp. 75-76
- Watercolor
- pp. 79-80
- Roman Summer
- pp. 81-82
- Remembrance of Gallipoli
- pp. 83-85
- From Verità di Uno (1970)
- To Domenico Cantore
- pp. 89-90
- One Day, Perhaps, This Way
- pp. 91-92
- The Fig Tree
- pp. 93-95
- From Calle del Vento (1975)
- "Here there's always a bit of wind"
- pp. 97-98
- "Under the tree, here"
- pp. 99-100
- "Evening spreads across the sky"
- pp. 101-102
- "Back when I was a boy"
- pp. 103-104
- "Saba, Stuparich, Giotti"
- pp. 105-106
- "Springtime tender and unripe"
- pp. 107-108
- "Now you have gone away, leaving behind"
- pp. 109-110
- "The movement of the sun across our rooms"
- pp. 111-112
- "Fine sunlight spreads evenly"
- pp. 113-114
- "Once long ago under a hellish sky"
- pp. 115-116
- "That old story"
- pp. 117-118
- "We make our way along the thread of years"
- pp. 119-120
- "The days, the months, the years"
- pp. 121-123
- From Poesie Inedite, o "Come" (1977)
- "In Venice, as it rests upon its bed"
- pp. 125-126
- "And so I stopped"
- pp. 127-128
- "You who have eyes to witness miracles"
- pp. 129-130
- "With the look upon your face"
- pp. 131-133
- From Tempo e Poesia (1964)
- The Old Poet and His Book
- pp. 135-142
- Series page
- pp. 143-144