Download or read book Hospital Series (Vol. 19) (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets) written by Amelia Rosselli and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poem cycle about hospital life and illness by revered, twentieth-century Italian avant-gardist. Hospital Series, a bruisingly intimate colloquy with an elusive lover, is Italian poet Amelia Rosselli’s virtuoso, subversive, neo-Petrarchan sequence of poems. Rosselli wrote much of the series in the mid 1960s after being hospitalized for a mental illness she suffered from for most of her life, and whose pain shapes her language and difficult vision. These explosive poems, a furious cacophonic crescendo of semantic and syntactic accumulations deeply admired by Pier Paolo Pasolini, place Rosselli among the greatest writers of her generation.