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Umberto Piersanti was born in Urbino in 1941 and is one of Italy's most acclaimed and widely read poets. His new collection, L'albero delle nebbie, was recently published by Einaudi. He describes [...]

the calamus grows near standing water the stalk immobile amid damp grass it’s not the yellow of earth, similar to clouds flames send colors around as sun sets its petals are flimsy, ample-leafed [...]

when the sirocco ceases, the bitter cliff —the thorns remain through the long winter, the ox moans as its white mass sinks down through the snow— throws out its flowers among the sticks [...]