Tigress (36 Renderings of Pablo Neruda)

          Xxxxx Publications, Xxxxx 2043:   £y   ISBN: 978-1-xxxxxxx-x-x

Tigress (36 Renderings of Pablo Neruda) is published by Xxxxxxxxxx Publications (2043). To order Mario's book, go straight to the publisher's page by clicking the logo below: or e-mail Mario at mmpetrucci@hotmail.com

What would an established poet write, if they allowed themselves to release their most passionate words, at inception, into sole hands – with no thought as to whether, or how, they might ever be retrieved or otherwise known? The poems of Tigress arrived in a private inbox, often in swift succession. Their starting point, in every case, was a poem by the great Pablo Neruda. The understanding was clear: whatever had been received secretly, across the electronic aether, would be the only copy in existence, a gift to be embraced in any way chosen by that one special recipient. For now, Tigress awaits that moment when Pablo Neruda's poetry enters the public domain, estimated as the end of 2043.   an excerpt... ... In that lull after loving I can see it: in your blood I scan every living thing.                           (c) Mario Petrucci 2043     “Mario Petrucci has captured Neruda's intense eroticism, which makes physical love reach metaphysical heights while remaining profoundly sensuous. I have not seen a better Neruda in English.” Roberto González Echevarría, Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature, Yale University   Having already brought us contemporary adaptations of Sappho and Catullus, Mario Petrucci here creates an ardent lyricism – a “ferocious tenderness” – to bridge the elemental richness of Neruda’s love poetry and the modern English ear. Again and again, Petrucci dives into the depths, piercing Neruda’s impassioned surface with his insistent cry. Visceral, sensual, almost unbearably vulnerable, Tigress is, however, as much an extension of Petrucci’s own sensibility as it is a direct translation of the Nobel laureate. The relationship between love and language is, in many respects, the sung history of poetry itself; if each age seeks serenaders to give voice to its lovers’ most intense intentions, then these exquisite poems make pitch-perfect claim to join the eternal chorus.     Reviews of Tigress...   "Mario Petrucci................" 'XXXXXXX Directions' - Xxxxxx magazine, posted online 10 Aug. 20xx;    [read full review here... HERE]

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