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Book Synopsis"In Piccolo's poems we meet a Sicily latent in the country of the tourist guides and the history books, but it was Piccolo far more than, say, his cousin Lampedusa, who was destined to draw out the latencies, read the signatures, crack the code...These brilliant translations will serve to introduce a whole new sensibility to Anglo-American readers.
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Translator's Introduction, pg. v*Acknowledgments, pg. vii*Contents, pg. ix*Foreword, pg. 1*Gioco a Nascondere, pg. 12*Hide and Seek, pg. 13*Anna Perenna, pg. 30*The Oven, pg. 45*The Farmhouse, pg. 53*Candles, pg. 61*Smoky Topaz, pg. 67*Patrol, pg. 71*The Days, pg. 73*Shadows, pg. 75*Oratorio for Valverde, pg. 82*The Sundial, pg. 91*Sirocco, pg. 97*Night, pg. 99*At the Time of the Bourbon King, pg. 105*The Warning, pg. 109*The Conjurer, pg. 111*Cards on the March, pg. 115*The Soul and Sleights of Hand, pg. 121*Although You Seek, pg. 123*Inconstant World, pg. 127*Where Sun-spores, pg. 129*The Bony Knuckles Try, pg. 131*We Live by Pauses, pg. 135*Veneris Venefica Agrestis, pg. 137*The Moon Brings the Month, pg. 145*Long Tendrils ..., pg. 149*But in the Night that Crosses, pg. 153*The Hunt, pg. 157*Guide for Climbing the Mountain, pg. 166*The Passage, pg. 173*Nocturne, pg. 177*The Lost Message, pg. 181*The Street Outside the Gate, pg. 185*The Three Figures, pg. 189*The Suburbs, pg. 191*The Dead, pg. 193*Plumelia, pg. 195*Afterword for Baroque Songs and Other Lyrics, pg. 197
