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Sanesi, Roberto

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1930 - 2001

Biographical / Historical

nato a Milano il 18 gennaio 1930

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

A Selection / Sanesi, Roberto., 1975

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Identifier: CC-02653-2696
Scope and Contents

Included as part of Grosseteste Review No.8. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Calligraphic Decorated Cubic Box displayed in Jarry E La Patafisica Exhibition (1983) / Sanesi, Roberto., 1983

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Identifier: CC-59606-65096
Scope and Contents The Sackner attended the Pataphsica exhibition where this work was displayed. The Guardian February 12, 1970, Mel Godding obituary: "Roberto Sanesi, who has died aged 70, was one of the most remarkable Italian writers of his generation. A highly accomplished and prolific poet, he was capable of working in a great variety of metrical forms, and was a master of free verse. His poetry, always imbued with a certain intellectuality, ranged extensively from the confessional and anecdotal to the philosophical and metaphysical, and he could shift register with extraordinary skill, from the lyrical to the factual to the speculative, within the bound of a single poem. In this respect he had learned much from TS Eliot and Ezra Pound, whose formal diversities and virtuoso uses of poetic impersonality he adapted with great originality to his own purposes in Italian. Sanesi was also a major translator of English and American poetry, making available for the first time much of the historical and...
Dates: 1983

della mostro / Sanesi, Roberto ; Herbert G ; Thomas D., 1992

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Identifier: CC-50281-71348
Scope and Contents

The Sackners purchased a cube sculpture paper covered in Sanesi's typical colored calligraphy of ink and gauche from the exhibition at the Palazzo Reale in Milan in 1983 titled "Jarry e la patafisica." Sanesi was born in 1930 and died in 2002. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Nella Coscia del Gigante Bianco / Sanesi, Roberto ; Thomas D., 1975

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Identifier: CC-32945-34561
Scope and Contents

This book offers a critical analysis and visual interpretations of Dylan Thomas' poem, "In the White Giant's Thigh." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975