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Tell the Oak Tree to Grow Faster is the first book of Maria Luisa Spaziani’s aphorisms in English translation. Linking aphorism and poetry, she “shows no trace of hypocrisy,” as Gino Ruozzi observes, and “her pungent and elitist dictates scourge accepted ideas and cut to the quick a lot of comfortab... Read More about deleteTell the Oak Tree to Grow Faster (Picas series)

Amidst the many literary movements that have characterized Italian poetry since World War II, Spaziani has carved out her own lyrical voice, using striking imagery, complex metrics and classical control to evoke the disorder of the postmodern world. Her poetry has been translated into numerous langu... Read More about Star of Free Will