Valero magrelli biography

January 18, 2006

"I've seen things by a young poet that I like very much," the 'Late Joseph Brodsky remarked some years ago. "His name is Magrelli."

Valerio Magrelli, now in his mid-forties, is no longer a promising poet but an established one.

His debut performance was the most assured and exciting one in Italian letters sinceMontale's Cuttlefish Bones, and expectation levels for him remain high.

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

Valerio Magrelli was born in in Rome, Italy, where he earned a degree in philosophy.

Valerio Magrelli is an Italian poet.

Valerio Magrelli (Rome, ) is the author of four poetry collections, for which he has won the Mondello Prize, the Viareggio Prize for poetry.

Valerio Magrelli, born in Rome in , has published six books of poetry (collected in the volume Le cavie, Einaudi ), the verse pamphlet Il.

Magrelli’s poetry reflects his wayward presence in the world, a man travelling with no passport but the Italian language, sifting through the debris of cultures, climes, and histories with the exquisite antennae of one who finds in the most desecrated landscape an inexhaustible abundance of image and association.

This is another way, perhaps, of saying that Magrelli is postmodern, thoughpostmodernism itself is just another stage on Romanticism's way. In Montale,the clutter of the world is a moral event, a sign of morbidity, but also, complexly, a symbol of res