As part of the Retrospectives series, curated by Centro Scritture, Studio Campo Boario presents 80 Flowers by Louis Zukofsky (Benway Series, 2024).
Coordinated by Valerio Massaroni, with presentations by Giulio Marzaioli and Paul Vangelisti, and an intervention by translator Rita Florit.
The event invites audiences to explore the linguistic and symbolic universe of the American Objectivist poet, who intertwines floral imagery with intricate linguistic and numerical play.
Readers are drawn into a garden of words, where each flower is a poetic microcosm and every verse an act of attentive listening. Embracing Zukofsky’s passion for classical and Shakespearean sources, 80 Flowers emerges as a contemplative and luminous herbarium — a synthesis and blossoming of his entire body of work.
