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关于英诗部分的作者W. S. Di Piero之简介：
A poet, essayist, art critic, translator from the Italian, and educator, W. S. Di Piero writes often about the South Philadelphia neighborhood of his boyhood and the Italian-American working-class families he grew up with. Albert Mobilio of The New York Times Book Review wrote, "when he recreates the streets of his hometown, he does so with a piercing specificity; this is a place where commonness is elevated by close scrutiny to something otherworldly." As Di Piero, in Skirts and Slacks, vividly recalls the deaths of his parents as well as everyday beauty and relationships, he fashions plain language into "dazzling moments," said Mobilio. He further noted that Skirts and Slacks "deserves convenient placement by the telephone, television, computer or radio so as to be ready to retune a static-buzzed mind's reflective potential."
A Publishers Weekly contributor wrote of Skirts and Slacks that Di Piero "consistently injects Kleinzahlerian whimsy into his short lyrics, along with pathos-laden descriptions of depression's quotidian." Frank Allen of Library Journal described Di Piero as a "master of impressionistic candlelight" who is sometimes "'fogged in'" while pursuing shapes of "'the invisible life of things'" but who is "precise and emphatic" when focusing on familiar city scenes and people.
Di Piero writes about both the literary and the visual arts in Shooting the Works: On Poetry and Pictures, a collection of memoirs, essays, notes, and art criticism covering a wide range of topics, from Hopi Indian storytelling to the poetry of Ezra Pound to contemporary photography. A Publishers Weekly contributor called Di Piero's approach in this book "impressionistic rather than strictly logical" because he is "more concerned with communicating his insights and enthusiasms than with persuading by argument." Di Piero's longtime love of art and photography is also evident in two of his earlier books, Out of Eden: Essays on Modern Art and Photography: A History, in his weekly column on the visual arts for San Diego Reader, and in his work for various art galleries and museums.
Di Piero has won awards for three of his poetry translations: Giacomo Leopardi's Pensieri, Sandro Penna's This Strange Joy, and Leonardo Sinisgalli's The Ellipse. Mobilio described Di Piero as "dedicated to a communicative ideal—he wants us to see, hear and taste his written world." In a Publishers Weekly review of Di Piero's translation of Euripides's Ion, the contributor wrote that his verse is "as effective as it is simple" in telling the story of the servant boy of Apollo. With both comic and tragic elements, the 2,400-year-old Greek drama makes for a combination that "is as easily found in King Lear as in All in the Family," the reviewer concluded.
Career
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, instructor, 1976-79, assistant professor of English, 1979-80; Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, visiting lecturer in English, 1980-82; Stanford University, Stanford, CA, assistant professor, 1982-85, associate professor, 1985-90, professor of English, 1990—.
Bibliography
POETRY
Country of Survivors, E. B. Rasmussen (Berkeley, CA), 1974.
Solstice, Porch Publications (Tempe, AZ), 1981.
The First Hour, The Cummington Press/Abattoir Editions, University of Nebraska (Omaha, NE), 1982.
The Only Dangerous Thing, Elpenor Books (Chicago, IL), 1984.
Early Light, University of Utah Press (Salt Lake City, UT), 1985.
The Dog Star, University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst, MA), 1990.
The Restorers, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1992.
Shadows Burning, TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press (Evanston, IL), 1995.
Skirts and Slacks, Alfred A. Knopf (New York, NY), 2001.
Brother Fire, Alfred A. Knopf (New York, NY), 2004.
Chinese Apples: New and Selected Poems, Alfred A. Knopf (New York, NY), 2007.
ESSAYS
Memory and Enthusiasm: Essays, 1975-1985, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1989.
Out of Eden: Essays on Modern Art, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1991.
Shooting the Works: On Poetry and Pictures, TriQuarterly Books (Evanston, IL), 1996.
City Dog, Northwestern University Press (Evanston, IL), 2009.
TRANSLATION
Giacomo Leopardi, Pensieri, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 1981; Galaxy Book paperback, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1984.
Sandro Penna, This Strange Joy: The Collected Poems of Sandro Penna, Ohio State University Press (Columbus, OH), 1982.
Leonardo Sinisgalli, The Ellipse: Selected Poems of Leonardo Sinisgalli, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1982.
Photography: A History, Aperture Publications, 1985.
Euripides, Ion, introduction, notes, and commentary by Peter Burian, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1996.
OTHER
Work represented in several anthologies, including The Morrow Book of Young American Poets, William Morrow (New York, NY), 1989; The Columbia History of American Poetry, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 1993; The Age of Koestler (poetry), Practices of the Wind Press (Kalamazoo, MI), 1994; The Poetry of the American West, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 1996; Italian Poetry Today (translations), New Rivers Press (Minneapolis, MN), 1979; New Directions 44 (translations), New Directions Press (San Francisco, CA), 1982; Hiding in Plain Sight (essay), Mercury House (San Francisco, CA), 1993; Best American Essays 1995 (essay), Houghton-Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1995; and Poets on Poetry (essay), Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2001. Wrote introduction for The Art of Gregory Gillespie, edited by K. R. Eagles-Smith, Harcourt Contemporary (New York, NY), 1992. Contributor of poems to periodicals, including New Yorker, Yale Review, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Pequod, and New Criterion. Contributor of translations to periodicals, including American Poetry Review, International Poetry Review, Chelsea, Modern Poetry in Translation, and Agni Review. Contributor of essays and reviews to periodicals, including The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, Civilization, The American Scholar, Commonweal, andThreepenny Review. Author of regular column on the visual arts for weekly newspaper, The San Diego Reader; author of catalog essays for various art galleries and museums.
Source: Poetry
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