« Finding Joseph Tusiani – The Poet of two lands » di Sabrina Digregorio
Ore 22.00. Ingresso 3 €. Isola Tiberina, 00186 Rome
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« Finding Joseph Tusiani – The Poet of two lands »
regia di Sabrina Digregorio
Sabato 4 Agosto Ore 22.00
Presso L’Isola del Cinema – Sala Cinelab Groupama
« Un ammaliante « road movie » della memoria e della storia, in forma di intervista – intima più che bio-bibliografica – tra lo scrittore e l’attrice Daiana Giorgi.
Sfiorando le idee-forza della sua poetica, lo sradicamento, la lotta, l’amore, il lavoro, la voce, il montaggio indocile tra « le due terre », la seduzione… Un dialogo « obliquo » che non si permette le facili semplificazioni del « post hoc ergo propter hoc ».
Tusiani è il « Simbolo di una emigrazione rara e alta, che si conosce poco e non si celebra mai » ha ricordato Furio Colombo. »
Roberto Silvestri su Il Manifesto
Atena Films Press Office
[email protected]
Ingresso 3 €
Isola Tiberina, 00186 Rome
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ENGLISH
Young Professor Joseph Tusiani established himself in Italian American cultural circles. He met the writer Francesca Vinciguerra, who had changed her name to Frances Winwar. She urged him to stay away from strictly Italian American enclosures and to write in English. Together with Frances Winwar, Joseph returned to Italy for the first time in 1954 and in his native town composed a long poem in English entitled The Return, a copy of which he gave to Mrs. Winwar. A few months later, The New York Times published the news that the Poetry Society of England had bestowed on Joseph Tusiani the prestigious Greenwood Prize, for the first time assigned to an American. The recognition greatly enhanced the young professor’s reputation as a poet. Thus he continued to write and publish his English poems in the most renowned American and European magazines. He achieved the rank of Full Professor at the City University of New York (Herbert H. Lehman College), at Fordham University, and was Director of the Catholic Poetry Society of America as well as Vice President of the Poetry Society of America. In 1963, he was chosen to participate in a venture called « Poetry in Crystal » (the Steuben Glass Co. had invited 31 of its sculptors to visualize in crystal the poems of the 31 best-known American poets of the time). Tusiani’s poem Standstill was interpreted by George Thompson. In the same year, President Kennedy invited him to record his poetry (an hour-long tape) for the Archives of the Library of Congress in Washington. He subsequently won the « Alice Fay di Castagnola Award » for his work in progress, If Gold Should Rust, a play in verse. His most representative English poems were collected in volumes. He has also published two novels, one in Italian and one in English (later translated into Italian). In his poetic activity Tusiani has also employed the Latin language, starting from 1955. His Latin lyrics, published in several volumes and translated into several languages, established Tusiani as the greatest living neo- Latin poet.He has authored 7 volumes of poetry in his Gargano dialect. After his retirement from teaching, he wrote and published a three-volume autobiography, commonly referred to as his autobiographical trilogy. Another fundamental activity of Tusiani is that of translator. The list of his translations is, indeed, enormous. The Tusiani family has lived, after the first residence on 188th Street, on Tomlinson Avenue (also in the Bronx) where his father died in October. 1977. At the beginning of 1997, after fifty years in the Bronx, Joseph Tusiani moved to Manhattan, at East 72nd Street, only a few blocks away from the residence of his brother Michael, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of one of the most prestigious international companies of oil mediation. His mother, so large a part of Joseph Tusiani’s singular life died on September 16 1998. Joseph Tusiani is still active in all the languages that he has used. His literary production has been the subject of many doctoral dissertations at several Italian Universities. He comes to Italy every year in the Spring.
(http://www.centrostuditusiani.com/)
« Finding Joseph Tusiani – The Poet of two lands »
regia di Sabrina Digregorio
Sabato 4 Agosto Ore 22.00
Presso L’Isola del Cinema – Sala Cinelab Groupama
« Un ammaliante « road movie » della memoria e della storia, in forma di intervista – intima più che bio-bibliografica – tra lo scrittore e l’attrice Daiana Giorgi.
Sfiorando le idee-forza della sua poetica, lo sradicamento, la lotta, l’amore, il lavoro, la voce, il montaggio indocile tra « le due terre », la seduzione… Un dialogo « obliquo » che non si permette le facili semplificazioni del « post hoc ergo propter hoc ».
Tusiani è il « Simbolo di una emigrazione rara e alta, che si conosce poco e non si celebra mai » ha ricordato Furio Colombo. »
Roberto Silvestri su Il Manifesto
Atena Films Press Office
[email protected]
Ingresso 3 €
Isola Tiberina, 00186 Rome
________________
ENGLISH
Young Professor Joseph Tusiani established himself in Italian American cultural circles. He met the writer Francesca Vinciguerra, who had changed her name to Frances Winwar. She urged him to stay away from strictly Italian American enclosures and to write in English. Together with Frances Winwar, Joseph returned to Italy for the first time in 1954 and in his native town composed a long poem in English entitled The Return, a copy of which he gave to Mrs. Winwar. A few months later, The New York Times published the news that the Poetry Society of England had bestowed on Joseph Tusiani the prestigious Greenwood Prize, for the first time assigned to an American. The recognition greatly enhanced the young professor’s reputation as a poet. Thus he continued to write and publish his English poems in the most renowned American and European magazines. He achieved the rank of Full Professor at the City University of New York (Herbert H. Lehman College), at Fordham University, and was Director of the Catholic Poetry Society of America as well as Vice President of the Poetry Society of America. In 1963, he was chosen to participate in a venture called « Poetry in Crystal » (the Steuben Glass Co. had invited 31 of its sculptors to visualize in crystal the poems of the 31 best-known American poets of the time). Tusiani’s poem Standstill was interpreted by George Thompson. In the same year, President Kennedy invited him to record his poetry (an hour-long tape) for the Archives of the Library of Congress in Washington. He subsequently won the « Alice Fay di Castagnola Award » for his work in progress, If Gold Should Rust, a play in verse. His most representative English poems were collected in volumes. He has also published two novels, one in Italian and one in English (later translated into Italian). In his poetic activity Tusiani has also employed the Latin language, starting from 1955. His Latin lyrics, published in several volumes and translated into several languages, established Tusiani as the greatest living neo- Latin poet.He has authored 7 volumes of poetry in his Gargano dialect. After his retirement from teaching, he wrote and published a three-volume autobiography, commonly referred to as his autobiographical trilogy. Another fundamental activity of Tusiani is that of translator. The list of his translations is, indeed, enormous. The Tusiani family has lived, after the first residence on 188th Street, on Tomlinson Avenue (also in the Bronx) where his father died in October. 1977. At the beginning of 1997, after fifty years in the Bronx, Joseph Tusiani moved to Manhattan, at East 72nd Street, only a few blocks away from the residence of his brother Michael, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of one of the most prestigious international companies of oil mediation. His mother, so large a part of Joseph Tusiani’s singular life died on September 16 1998. Joseph Tusiani is still active in all the languages that he has used. His literary production has been the subject of many doctoral dissertations at several Italian Universities. He comes to Italy every year in the Spring.
(http://www.centrostuditusiani.com/)
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