Mariangela Gualtieri

Even though Mariangela Gualtieri is recognized throughout Italy as one of the country's foremost contemporary poets, rightly celebrated by her peers and faithful readers, she is hardly known in English. A poet whose work is a rhapsodic yet distinctly unsentimental celebration of nature, Gualtieri show more reminds one of Danilo Dolci's understanding of the cosmos and of poetry's own place in it: a creature of creatures whose unfolding, ancestral wisdom enriches and augments the measure of man and woman on earth. An essential book culled from her four major collections, Beast of Joy is Gualtieri's first to appear in English translation and offers a representative sample of the poets production to date. show less