Hard Bread

by Peg Boyers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226069656
• ISBN13: 9780226069654
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful book of poetry....

This book is important and beautiful. Peg Boyers has a way of getting you invovled in the moment in a new world where everything is changed but you still feel comfortable. Meeting new people through her poems she soon makes them familiar to you but it is a show of her mastery of the craft that makes the poems so alive. This is a fine, elegant wonderful book. Buy one for you and another for a friend. You will enjoy each page and every poem!