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词条 Naked as Water
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  1. Summary

  2. Reviews

  3. Editions

  4. References

Naked as Water, by Mario Azzopardi, is a book of poems written originally in Maltese. Note that Mario Azzopardi (born 1944) should not be confused with Mario Philip Azzopardi (who has made a career in film-making in Canada). The former Azzopardi is a poet, short story writer, university lecturer and cultural columnist and is the incumbent principal of the Malta Drama Centre. He made his first mark as a leading, radical poet in the nineteen-sixties. Naked as Water is a collection of verse by Mario Azzopardi, translated by Professor Grazio Falzon.

Summary

The poems in this collection have been arranged into five sections:

  • Nocturnes and Visions — poems of angst, nightmares, scenes from the village and city.
  • Anima — poems about women.
  • The Seven-Headed Dragon — poems about the larger-than-life poet and his quest.
  • Equinox — poems on religious themes.
  • Tombstone With No Epitaph — abstract poems, poems on geometric relationships, poems about poetry itself.

Reviews

"... Azzopardi's poems speak forcefully about Malta's history and independence as a culture."[1]

"In Malta the catchphrase associated with Mario Azzopardi -- poet, teacher of literature and drama producer -- is enfant terrible."[2]

"Naked As Water is a very exotic volume... The poems themselves are a studied primitivism filled with the primal reality of sea, sun and moon, but always with a sophisticated awareness of the 'isms' of twentieth-century art and literature. This is a very valuable book out of one last minority world of Europe that demands its place on the literary map." [3]

Editions

  • Translated from the Maltese, and with an Introduction and Afterword by Grazio Falzon; illustrations by Thomas M. Cassidy. Grand Terrace, CA: Xenos Books. {{ISBN|1-879378-11-6}} (paper), xiii + 178 p.

References

1. ^Kenneth Scambray in L'Italo Americano (Nov. 1998)
2. ^World Literature Today (Winter 1997)
3. ^Small Press Review (Nov. 1996)

2 : Maltese literature|Maltese books

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