Eugenio De Signoribus (born 1947) is an Italian poet. He was born and lives in

Cupra Marittima Cupra Marittima ( la, Cupra Maritima) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Ascoli Piceno in the Italian region Marche, located about southeast of Ancona and about northeast of Ascoli Piceno. As of 1 January 2008, it had a population ...

in the province of

Ascoli Piceno Ascoli Piceno (; la, Asculum; dialetto ascolano: Ascule) is a town and ''comune'' in the Marche region of Italy, capital of the province of the same name. Its population is around 46,000 but the urban area of the city has more than 93,000. Geo ...

, Italy. He was winner in 2002 of the Castelfiorentino Literature Prize and in 2008 of the

Viareggio Prize The Viareggio Prize ( it, Premio Viareggio, italic=no or ) is an Italian literary prize, first awarded in 1930. Named after the Tuscan city of Viareggio, it was conceived by three friends, , Carlo Salsa and Leonida Rèpaci, to rival the Milanese ...

. Swedish Academician

Kjell Espmark Kjell Erik Espmark (19 February 1930 – 18 September 2022) was a Swedish writer, literary historian, member of the Swedish Academy, and Professor of the History of Literature at Stockholm University. He was elected to the Swedish Academy on 5 ...

has described him as "a more severe and rigorous voice than those to which we are accustomed. His powerfully visionary poetry frees itself from every casual or superfluous element to give emphasis to the primary conditions of existence." He is a co-editor of the ''Istmi'' literary journal.

Works

*''Case perdute, 1976–1985'' (il lavoro editoriale,1989). *''Istmi e chiuse, 1989–1995'' (Marsilio, 1996) *''Principio del giorno, 1990–1999'' (Garzanti, 2000) *''Altre educazioni, 1980–1999'' (Crocetti, 2001) *''Memoria del chiuso mondo'' (Quodlibet, 2002) *''Ronda dei conversi'' (Garzanti, 2005) *''Poesie (1976–2007)'' (Garzanti, 2008) *''Nessun luogo è elementare'' (Alberto Tallone Editore, 2010) *''Trinità dell'esodo, 2005–2010'' (Garzanti, 2011) *''Veglie genovesi'' (Il Canneto Editore, 2013) * ''Stazioni'' ''1994-2017'' (Manni, Lecce, 2018) Poems by De Signoribus have appeared in the following English translations: * by

Christopher Whyte Christopher Whyte (''Crìsdean MacIlleBhàin'') is a Scottish poet, novelist, translator and critic. He is a novelist in English, a poet in Scottish Gaelic, the translator into English of Marina Tsvetaeva, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Rainer Maria ...

Lines Review ''Lines Review'' was a Scottish poetry journal founded by the publisher Callum Macdonald in 1952. Its original editorial board included the Scottish poets Sydney Goodsir Smith, Hugh MacDiarmid, Norman MacCaig, Sorley MacLean and Denis Peploe. L ...

, 1994 * by Emanuel di Pasquale in ''New Italian Poetry: an anthology'', 2006 * by Christopher Whyte and V. Joshua Adams in ''The FSG Book of Twentieth Century Italian Poetry'', 2012 * by Johanna Bishop, Damiano Abeni and Moira Egan in ''Canone Inverso, Anthology of Contemporary Italian Literature'', 2014 * by Richard Dixon in ''Nuovi Argomenti'', 2013; ''The Journal of Italian Translation'', 2013; ''Almost Island'', 2014; ''Italian Contemporary Poets: an anthology'', 2016;''The Journal of Italian Translation'', 2018 His poetry has also been translated into French and Swedish.''De Omvändas Rond, 1999–2004'', trans. Julian Birbrajer, (Italienska Kulturinstitutet "C. M. Lerici", Stockholm, 2011)

References

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