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The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry. Geoffrey Brock, ed. New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2012. isbn 978-0374105389
To edit an anthology of modern poetry in translation is no easy task: not only must individual poets and poems from a broad time period be selected, but the editor must also find available translations of enduring quality. Geoffrey Brock resourcefully resolves the challenge in part by doing his own translations of a significant number of poems, a job for which he meets the criteria set in his translator's note- "translators must also be poets"-by being himself an accomplished translator and poet. He has also assembled an unusually varied group of translators who are themselves practicing poets, including already familiar names-Ezra Pound, Ted Hughes, W. S. Di Piero, and Jonathan Galassi-along with somewhat less familiar...