Diego Isaias Hernández Méndez, Convertiendse en Characoteles / Sorcerers Changing into Their Animal Forms (detail), 2013, oil on canvas. Arte Maya Tz’utujil Collection.
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Giampiero Neri was born near Lake Como in 1927. A bank employee for forty years, he has been writing poetry his entire life. In 2007 his Poems, 1960-2005 was published by Mondadori (with an introduction by the Italian poet Maurizio Cucchi). His newest collection, Paesaggi Inospiti (Inhospitable Landscapes), was brought out in 2009, also by Mondadori. (updated 4/2009)
Martha Cooley is the author of two novels—The Archivist, a national bestseller published in a dozen foreign markets, and Thirty-Three Swoons—and a memoir, Guesswork. She co-translated Antonio Tabucchi’s Time Ages in a Hurry and the poetry of Giampiero Neri and Loris Jacopo Bononi. Her short fiction, essays, and co-translations have appeared in A Public Space, The Common, AGNI, The Southampton Review, and elsewhere. She is professor of English at Adelphi University. (updated 9/2019)
Antonio Romani is a former teacher and bookseller whose translations have appeared in A Public Space, AGNI, and PEN America. With co-translator Martha Cooley, he has published translations of the short fiction of Antonio Tabucchi and the poetry of Giampiero Neri and Loris Jacopo Bononi. (updated 11/2014)