Jersey Blues Selected Poems

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Like a pilgrim, or a spiritual vagrant, crisscrossing the country—always rolling on the very fabric of the continent: westwards and eastwards, to the eternal oceans, and from the northern vast plains down through the Appalachian, to the deep recesses of the lowlands, to the swamps—infallibly enough I would always return to my dwelling in Princeton. Many a time the lonely night was devoted to the contemplation of the moon of New Jersey, as I licked the wounds of a sore soul. I always wondered, how different that pale, ghostly circle of a moon was, from the one I encountered elsewhere above the magnificent land that I had been scampering about, and from the lost moon of my childhood. Yet, with adulthood—or maturity—seeing at last the rise and fall of earthling matters, I would flinch, my heart recoiling, as from something unpleasant. Thus, through the jaundiced, estranged buoy in the sky, I would recall past memories, and hold out my quivering hand to reach over to the always-receding mysteries of existence.

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Alessandro Baruffi (b. 1973) is a writer, poet, and academic researcher in the fields of American, Germanic, and Russian literature. Beyond the literary realm, he is an outdoor enthusiast, a lover of nature, and an advocate of healthy lifestyle and plant-based nutrition.

His published works include: "Adua Mar" (2000, Poems), "Icarus" (2006,Poems), "Jersey Blues" (2007, Poems), "24 Racconti" (2008, ShortStories), "The Poems of Trieste and Five Poems for the Game of Soccer"(2013, Translation, Umberto Saba), "Lunga è la Notte" (2015, Novel),"The Forgotten amongst the Great: a Collection of the Best PoemsTranslated in English" (2015, Translation, Vincenzo Cardarelli), "TheTales of Franz Kafka" (2016, Translation, Franz Kafka), "Le Poesie diRobert Frost nella Traduzione Italiana" (2016, Translation, RobertFrost), "Midnight 30, American Poems" (2016, Poems), "The Poems ofGiovanni Pascoli (2017, Translation, Giovanni Pascoli), "Montale'sEssential: The Poems of Eugenio Montale in English" (2017, Translation,Eugenio Montale), "Giuseppe Ungaretti, the Master of Hermeticism,Translated In English" (2018, Translation, Giuseppe Ungaretti),"Gabriele D'Annunzio: The Collection of Poems in English" (2019,Translation, Gabriele D'Annunzio), and "Umberto Saba: the Collection ofPoems. Umberto Saba's Poetry Translated in English" (2020, Translation,Umberto Saba).

He has translated for international literary magazines authors such including: Franz Kafka, Robert Frost, EdgarAllan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Seamus Heaney, Antônio Álvares de Azevedo, Fernando Pessoa, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Alfonsina Storni, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Marina Tsvetaeva, Konstantin Simonov, Umberto Saba, Vincenzo Cardarelli, Giovanni Pascoli, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Eugenio Montale, Giosuè Carducci, and Ada Negri.

Website: baruffi.me

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