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Orpheus in the Underworld 1999 (Dead Times)
(poem)
Vincenzo Bagnoli
Italian poet Vincenzo Bagnoli
was born in 1967. Following
his Ph.D. in Italian Literature
from the Ca’ Foscari University
of Venice, he worked as a
research assistant for several
years, publishing monographs
and
essays
on
Italian
literature. Vincenzo co-founded the literary magazine
Versodove. Rivista di letteratura
. He has published three
volumes of poems, with work appearing in top Italian
poetry magazines, newspapers and blogs. He has also
played in a post-punk band, and contributed to several
documentary films.
The following poem, in six breath-taking movements, also
appears in
Offscapes
, a beautiful, bilingual (Italian-English)
book-length collaboration with translator/photographer
Valeria Reggi, exploring Italian industrial decay; it can be
savored in its entirety online,
here .Translated from Italian and with photos by Valeria Reggi.