{"product_id":"9781462843442","title":"Small Press Verse \u0026 Poeticonjectures","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Mr. Zanelli’s native tongue is Italian. Within just a few years after learning English he began to compose poetry in this foreign language. I can only imagine how hard it must be to gather the thoughts and sensations that are required to write and translate them into external and removed groups of sounds … English words. Because of this I read each poem with a sense of wonder.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Lisa Kaufman (\u003ci\u003ePoetic Voices\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘ … the dense, allusive, vivid pleasures I have championed in Alessio’s more recent work … ’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Chris J. Heyworth (\u003ci\u003eBreathe Poetry Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Alessio Zanelli is an Italian poet with a masterful command of the English language.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Lynne Jones (\u003ci\u003eGentle Reader Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmall Press Verse \u0026amp; Poeticonjectures\u003c\/i\u003e is Alessio Zanelli’s second book of poetry, containing all the poems that appeared in paper or web magazines and anthologies during the triennium 2000-2002, plus a solid batch of selected previously unpublished works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompared with the ones in his first collection \u003ci\u003eLoose Sheets\u003c\/i\u003e, some of which are also included in the present volume, these latest poems evidence the author’s much improved skill in manipulating the English language in both its classical and modern, idiomatic usage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn parallel, and suggestively again, Zanelli’s lyrical verse aspires to reinforce the background image of his feeling a citizen of the world, though firmly attached to his roots.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot less captivating sounds the author’s original voice, in which he is able to treat the great and little themes of life, to depict his inner fancied world, as well as to confront and subdue man’s latent, ancestral, metaphysical fear of existence, regarded as being a miniscule dot within something immeasurably and unaccountably vaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is then softly and gradually brought to light is a cosmic scene behind the fate of men that renders all of human endeavors and dreams ineluctably worthwhile, whatever birthplace, period, culture and faith may be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124751286512,"sku":"9781462843442","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781462843442_p0.jpg?v=1763679087","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781462843442","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}