At the start of a promising career, Antonia Pozzi (1912-1938) committed suicide, leaving behind several hundred poems known only to her closest friends. The posthumous publication of this work led Eugenio Montale to praise Pozzi's "desire to reduce the weight of words to the minimum." Her Modernist verse is lyrical and experimental, pastoral and erotic, powerfully evoking the northern Italian landscape and her personal tragedies amid the repressive climate of Fascism. Breath contains a representative selection of Pozzi's poems in an Italian/ English bilingual format along with a number of her...

Eugenio Montale reconnaissait dans la - purete du son - et la - limpidite des images - de la poesie d Antonia Pozzi le signe d une poesie innee dont Vittorio Sereni fut l un des plus ardents defenseurs.
Antonia Pozzi (1912-1938), milanaise de naissance et de formation, s etait livree corps et ame a la poesie. Eleve d Antonio Banfi, a l instar de Dino Formaggio, Remo Cantoni, Giulio Preti et Enzo Paci, elle avait comme eux appartenu a cette generation en crise, eprouvee par la montee du Fascisme.
La vie impregne son uvre poetique jointe au sentiment de la fin. Ses Paroles prisonnieres...