Antonello Borra teaches Italian at the University of Vermont. His other volumes of poetry are Frammenti di tormenti (prima parte) (Longo: 2000), Frammenti di tormenti (seconda parte) (Lietocolle: 2006), Alfabestiario (Lietocolle: 2009), and the illustrated, bilingual Alphabetabestiario (Fomite: 2011). The texts presented here are not exactly the same appeared in Italy in 2009. Translations of his poetry appeared in English, Catalan, and are being prepared in German. He translated into Italian poems from the English of Greg Delanty, W.S. Merwin, and Gerry Murphy; from the German of Erich Fried;...