A talk by editor Patrick Barron
Composed directly in English during a period of writer’s block and later ‘translated’ by the poet himself into facing semi-independent Italian versions, Andrea Zanzotto’s fascinating Haiku for a Season constitutes a singular addition to world literature: a classic poetic form handled deftly by a master innovator and one of Europe’s major poetic voices” (John P. Welle, University of Notre Dame)
Andrea Zanzotto (1921-2011) is widely considered one of the most important Italian and European poets of the twentieth century. Zanzotto’s poetry has registered the profound social and cultural changes that have transformed postwar Italy.
Patrick Barron teaches at the University of Massachusetts. He has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy in Rome, the Fulbright Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts.