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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.

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