DELIRIOUS VERSE / AMELIA ROSSELLI

 

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Delirious Verse

May 2025

The Last Books

Also available from Asterism Books

68 pp., 165 × 220 mm, stapled
ISBN 978-9-49178-011-0

Edited and translated by Andrea di Serego Alighieri and Phil Baber

Including “Metrical Spaces,” translated by Jennifer Scappettone

This Yellow Paper from The Last Books presents an English translation of a talk given by the poet Amelia Ros­selli in the early 1980s, during which she read aloud and elabo­rated on her seminal essay “Metrical Spaces.”

As well as a transcription of Rosselli’s talk, the book includes a new translation of “Metrical Spaces” by Jennifer Scappettone and a critical afterword by Andrea di Serego Alighieri.

See our launch at NYU in May 2025 here.

The Last Books, based in Amsterdam, is edited by Phil Baber. The press was founded in 2012 with Snejanka Mihaylova.
     The Yellow Papers is a series of short books and pamphlets on poetry and poetics.
     See also: Don’t Pay Your Rent, an occasional reading series organized by TLB and Rietlanden Women’s Office.