DELIRIOUS VERSE / AMELIA ROSSELLI
Cover of Delirious Verse, rust on white backdrop
Delirious Verse
May 2025
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.