Poetry and fiction from one of Italy's most accomplished young writers, "a man influenced as much by Jim Thompson as by Dante," says The Fortnightly Review.
A note from the translator: 'Marco Genovesi, like many young writers in Italy, has sought inspiration in outside sources. While he draws on a wide variety of English-language authors, from Bukowski to Woolf, he has also turned to Japanese literature, especially the haiku poets and the novelists Kawabata and Murakami. In Genovesi's poems and stories, their focused imagery and clipped phraseology run counter to the exuberant...
Poetry and fiction from one of Italy's most accomplished young writers, "a man influenced as much by Jim Thompson as by Dante," says The Fortnightly R...