Paola Loreto
Clara Caverzasio in conversation with authors
Saturday 25 November 2023, 17.30 · Sala Boccadoro, Montagnola
At the event LetteraTalk (in Italian), journalist Clara Caverzasio presents her guests' works and discusses current issues with them. This year, the focus is on dealing with climate change in Italian-language literature.
Guest: Paola Loreto, author of In quota (Interlinea, 2012)
In italian
Entrance fee: «Pay What You Want» principle
Clara Caverzasio
BIO
Paola Loreto is Professor of Anglo-American Literature in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Milan. She is the author of three monographs on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost and Derek Walcott, and numerous articles on North American and Caribbean literatures (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vladimir Nabokov, John Steinbeck, Richard Wilbur, Robert Bly, A.R. Ammons, Bernard Malamud, Chaim Potok, Sam Selvon, Michael Ondatjie, Joy Kogawa, Jane Urquhart). A specialist in American poetry, his research currently focuses on American poetics, poetry translation, ecocriticism and ecopoetry, and World Literature. She has translated Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Richard Wilbur, Philip Levine, Charles Simic, A. R. Ammons, Amy Newman, and Mary Oliver.