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Corporeal, homoerotic, reified and ethereal.

Pierre Lepori's Almost Love (Quasi Amore) contains forty-five short stanzas, reminiscent of a lyric tradition extending from the Greek elegiac poets, such as Sappho and Mimnermus, to the Italian poet, Sandro Penna. The poems revolve around the word "love" as compared to the precariousness of life and the incompleteness of language, thus generating new images in a poetry that is corporeal, homoerotic, reified and at the same time ethereal. As Lepori writes, "There are forms of love – both physical and spiritual – that escape the events of what we call reality by convention."

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      Publisher: Guernica Editions,Canada
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/2022
      ISBN13: 9781771837354, 978-1771837354
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Corporeal, homoerotic, reified and ethereal.

      Pierre Lepori's Almost Love (Quasi Amore) contains forty-five short stanzas, reminiscent of a lyric tradition extending from the Greek elegiac poets, such as Sappho and Mimnermus, to the Italian poet, Sandro Penna. The poems revolve around the word "love" as compared to the precariousness of life and the incompleteness of language, thus generating new images in a poetry that is corporeal, homoerotic, reified and at the same time ethereal. As Lepori writes, "There are forms of love – both physical and spiritual – that escape the events of what we call reality by convention."

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