BIBFRAME Work

Title

What sex is death?

Type

  • Text
  • Monograph

Contribution

Subject

Genre Form

  • Poetry (LCGFT)
  • Translations into English
  • Translations (LCGFT)

Language

Classification

  • DDC: 851/.914 (Assigner: dlc)
  • LCC: PQ4862.E38 W4713 2025 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

Supplementary content

Summary

"Over the course of twenty-five years, Dario Bellezza - Italy's first openly gay, major prize-winning poet-novelist-playwright - published more than twenty books, including eight poetry collections. His debut, Invective and License (1971), established him as a bold, daring poet, energetically exploring love, sexual transformation, and death. He later won the Viareggio Prize, Italy's most prestigious poetry award, and the Montale Prize for lifetime poetic achievement. After his death, two volumes of selected works appeared, and in 2015 an edition of his collected poems arrived to great acclaim. Yet, until now, his work has never been available in English. Bellezza embraced a variety of forms, from brash love-lyric to political narrative, and the fervor of his voice makes a compelling argument for his lasting importance as one of the most remarkable poets of the late twentieth century. Award-winning translator Peter Covino offers a wide-ranging selection of the most representative poetry from throughout Bellezza's career. Influenced by the Beats and championed by Allen Ginsberg (among others), the poetry in this volume is both exciting and timely. Ranging from stray cats in the graveyards of Rome, to the literal and metaphoric fallout from the Chernobyl disaster, to the joys and disappointments of random hookups, Bellezza's dazzling visions will sparkle in readers' eyes like sunspots long after they complete this magnificent volume"-- Provided by publisher.

Authorized Access Point

Bellezza, Dario. What sex is death?

Admin Metadata

  • Date: 2026-09-30T17:46:42.218919+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 23863600

Admin Metadata

  • Date: 2026-09-30
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

Alternative Formats

Blue Core Actions

  • Load to Marva Marva loads Instances, not Works. Open one of this Work's Instances and load that into Marva instead.
  • Load to Sinopia
  • Export to Catalog Only Instances can be exported. Open one of this Work's Instances and export that instead.