Edoardo Sanguineti is the most important poet in Italy's neo-vanguard movement. His linguistic experiments have become very popular among Italians and in many countries throughout the world. They contain a wonderful lyrical continuity beyond their linguistic disorder. His work captures the anguish, the wit, and the need for human love in a world often beset by chaos. His wordplay and multiple levels of meaning and use of suggestiveness, together with his use of musical connotations, make his work exceptionally difficult to translate. Much of it has been set to music by the famous composer...

Padraig J. Daly was born in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland, and is an Augustinian priest working in Dublin. He has published four previoius collections with Dedalus, including his new and selected poems, The Last Dreamers, in 1999. In Clinging to the Myth, he further explores issues of faith and belief, particularly in relation to the challenge of personal loss and bereavement. He reflects too on the emerging post-Christian Ireland and uses the voices of 18th century Gaelic poetry to reflect on the sufferings of modern war-torn peoples.