Selected Poems

By Luigi Di Ruscio

The first English translation of an Italian poet known for his uncompromising integrity and strong leftist sympathy for the working man.

Born in a sub-proletarian ghetto in Italy in 1930 under the fascist regime, Luigi Di Ruscio was an urchin running wild in the countryside, a Communist with clear anarchist leanings, a jack-of-all-trades. In 1957 he emigrated to Oslo, where he worked for forty years in a steel-wire factory, spending his evenings at the typewriter, delving with furious energy into his native Italian. Di Ruscio insisted that whereas the language of power is always a contrived, one-way fabrication, the language of the underprivileged is upfront and direct, aiming straight and sharp for the truth. Caustic as a shopfloor scouring agent, exhilarating in its overabundance, humor, and outspokenness, Selected Poems stands as a testament of tenacity, a record of class struggle, and a vital presence for our times.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1803091584
• ISBN13: 9781803091587
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"