The poems in Peg Boyers's Hard Bread are "spoken" in the imagined voice of the Italian writer, Natalia Ginzburg (1916-91). While much of the book is based on Ginzburg's life-her upbringing in Turin; her brief marriage to the resistance activist, Leone Ginzburg; her experience of Fascism and war; her work as novelist, playwright, editor, and newspaper columnist; her embattled friendships with writers like Primo Levi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ernest Hemingway, and Cesare Pavese-much is invented.
The result is a book by turns melancholy and acerbic, mournful and satiric, contemplative and combative.
| ISBN: | 9780226069654 |
| Publication date: | 27th February 2002 |
| Author: | Peg Boyers |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 112 pages |
| Series: | Phoenix Poets |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |
The poems in Peg Boyers's Hard Bread are "spoken" in the imagined voice of the Italian writer, Natalia Ginzburg (1916-91). While much of the book is based on Ginzburg's life-her upbringing in Turin; her brief marriage to the resistance activist, Leone Ginzburg; her experience of Fascism and war; her work as novelist, playwright, editor, and newspaper columnist; her embattled friendships with writers like Primo Levi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ernest Hemingway, and Cesare Pavese-much is invented.
Hard Bread features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
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Hard Bread was written by Peg Boyers and published by The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press
Hard Bread has 112 pages
Yes it is part of Phoenix Poets series