{"product_id":"9781599540917","title":"L'America dei Padri \/ The Fathers' America","description":"Ernesto Livorni, certainly among the most productive and surprising Italian-language poets who live and work in the United States, is a poet who fully participates in the situation here described, in the company of Mario Moroni and Alessandro Carrera in the generation immediately following the fi rst Italian-language 'greats' from across the ocean, Paolo Valesio and Luigi Ballerini. Livorni is coming off a work of great metaphoric tension, entitled Nel libro che ti diedi (Campanotto, 1998), neither too 'alla buona' nor 'alla confusa', as he wrote auto-ironically in the two sections of his text. In that role, he found in sonnet form ever more certain and happily contrasting pretexts to his own impulse towards overabundance: \"With you I burned the dark earth:\/ and yet we play with sunken eyes\/ as if we were old twigs.\"","brand":"Bordighera Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053245841648,"sku":"9781599540917","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781599540917_p0.jpg?v=1763825962","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781599540917","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}