The Dragonfly: A Selection of Poems: 1953-1981

by Amelia Rosselli

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by Giuseppe Leporace and Deborah Woodward. Amelia Rosselli, whose heroic, anti-fascist father was assassinated by Mussolini's henchmen when she was seven years old, grew up in the cities of Europe and in America as the "daughter with a devastated heart." In fierce and incandescent verse that draws upon the French and English she learned in exile, Rosselli expresses the pain, irony and deep emotion of a traumatized spirit; she committed suicide in 1996.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0982384904
• ISBN13: 9780982384909
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Chelsea Editions
• Length: 275 Pages