Enventarse na vita/To Invent a Life
Poems in the Trentino Dialect and English
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Ale de ‘mprést Ale de ‘mprést per i me brazzi stràchi quando la nòt l’è giòmi de ombrìe e la luna la ciama per desgartiàr i sogni Ale de ‘mprést Per carezzar le stele E brusar en la còa dele cométe, cavai che no gà paze su sintéri de vent. Borrowed Wings Borrowed wings in my tired arms when the night is a sphere of shadows and the moon calls to unravel dreams. Borrowed wings to caress the stars and burn in the tail of comets agitated horses on the scent of the wind.
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About the Book
Translating these poems with Antonia Dalpiaz has been one of the highlights of my writing career. They are so beautiful that it sometimes seemed to me that they were translating themselves! You will find within: poems of nature, poems of love, and many which defy genre classification. Dalpiaz wrote them in the dialect of her home town of Trento, Italy (trentino), and if you know some Italian you should be able to appreciate the wonderful charm of this dialect. This is why we wanted to publish this book in bilingual form, each poem in the original followed by the English. Enjoy!
About the Author
Antonia Dalpiaz’s work, both poetry and prose, appears in many anthologies. She has written plays both in dialect and in Italian, and has three books published. “An Imperfect Woman”, “A Birthday Gift”, and “Double Skin”. She lives in Trento, Italy with her husband and has two children. Michael F. Capobianco is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at St John’s University, New York. He has been writing and translating for some forty years and has ten books and several short stories and poems published some of which have won awards. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, Teresa.