The painter's unpublished novel, an account of the misadventures of his autobiographical hero?a painter who wanders, dreams, remembers, frets, polemicizes, and tells stories. Translated from the Italian for the first time into English.
Stefania Heim is the translator of Geometry of Shadows, the Italian poems of Giorgio de Chirico. She has received a translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as a fellowship to attend the ViceVersa Translation Workshop from Translation House Looren for her work on de Chirico. She is the author of the poetry collections HOUR BOOK and A Table That Goes On for Miles; and a contributing author to Midwinter Constellation, a radical experiment in poetic collaboration that responds to Bernadette Mayer's epic-in-a-day, Midwinter Day. With Catherine Gander, she is coediting Beyond Ourselves: Contemporary Poets on Muriel Rukeyser. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, where she teaches at Western Washington University.
