About the Author

Lorenzo Calogero (1910-1961) was a medical doctor by training, but practiced his profession only sporadically, spending most of his life writing experimental poetry in the village of Meliccuc�, Calabria (Italy), where he was born and died. His verse remained mostly unknown until after his probable suicide, then his work was discovered more widely, and he was hailed as a "new Rimbaud." These are poems of mystery, ambiguity, self and other, self as other, radiant moments between moonlight and sea, expression on the outer edge of language.

John Taylor, in addition to Lorenzo Calogero, has translated three contemporary French poets for Chelsea Editions: Philippe Jaccottet, Louis Calaferte and Pierre-Albert Jourdan. He writes the "Poetry Today" column for the Antioch Review and has long been a contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. His essays have been collected in A Little Tour Through European Poetry; Into the Heart of European Poetry and the three-volume Paths to Contemporary French Literature. He has published three poetic memoirs: THE APOCALYPSE TAPESTRIES (Xenos Books, 2004), NOW THE SUMMER CAME TO PASS (Xenos, 2012) and IF NIGHT IS FALLING (Bitter Oleander, 2012).