Fabio Pusterla (b. 1957) is of mixed Swiss / Italian parentage, teaches Italian literature at the cantonal high school in Lugano, and lives just across the border on the Italian shore of Lake Lugano (Lago di Ceresio) in one of the villages of the Valsolda. A poet, translator, essayist and scholar, he contributes to many Italian, Swiss and French literary periodicals. For his work, translated into many European languages, he has been awarded the Premio Montale (1986), the Schiller Prize (1986, 2000 and 2011), the Premio Dessi (2009) and the Premio Lionello Fiumi (2008, 2010), the Premio Prezzolini for translation (1994), the Premio Marazza (2009) and, in 2007, the Gottfried Keller Prize for his work as a whole.

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• Translator's Preface / 10 , Introduction / 13, FROM Concession to Winter, Parentheses / 21,Paradiso, Cavallino / 21, The Dodo / 23, from Bocksten, The Eel of the Rhine / 25, from Things with no Past , Claudia and Nina Sleeping / 27, Buried in the Garden / 27, Notice to Quit: Three Fragments / 33, Landscape / 35, Snowing (or Writing in Winter) / 39, Crocuses at Evolene / 39, The Drowned Woman / 39, Crespi d'Adda / 41, Landscape with Moira Writing / 43, The Blackbird / 45, Breaking Surface / 45, Vatel / 49 from Pietra sangue :The Two Adversaries / 53, Drainage Canal / 55, The Spendthrift Takes Stock / 57, To Those Who Come After / 57, Bois de la folie / 58, Descending and Ascending: the Stairways of Albogasio / 63, Tremor / 67 from Submerged Multitude :Untitled / 73, Two Herons / 73, Submerged Multitude / 77, First Strawberries / 79, Without Images / 81, Letter from Nikolajevka / 81, Deposition / 83, Last Judgement / 85 , Displaced Swarm / 85, Concomitances / 87, Days Full of Caves and Tigers / 89, Thirty Years On / 91, Moving On / 93 from Corpo stellare: On Tiny Wings / 97, April 2006. Postcards of Italy / 97, Letters from Babel / 105, Prospect Hill / 109, Stories of the Armadillo / 111, Notes / 124, Biographical Notes / 127