Nomad Diary (Diario Nomade)

Giovanni Cecchetti's Nomad Diary begins with « The Great Valley, a superb long poem which shows the course of the planet framing the course of humankind and civilization. Following poems feature mesmerizing crocodiles, crazy cypresses, giant mosquitoes, the « pollen of jazz of New Orleans drunken islands, and an enchanted teenager in the sea. A short collection of elegant epigrams rounds out the volume. The West and South-west were dear to Cecchetti and appear throughout the book. His essay « On Writing Poetry in a Foreign Land has been translated here by Raymond Petrillo.