Brugnaro, Ferruccio

Fist Sun

ISBN: 9781880684528
Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1998. First Edition. Signed by Jack Hirschman. “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”--Antonio Gramsci, "The Prison Notebooks". Ferruccio Brugnaro (b. 1936) wa born in Mestre, outside Venice, and spent most of his adult years toiling in the caustic, Pandemonium-esque-machine-and-chemical-suffused hellscape of the factories of his hometown. In the wake of the cataclysmic conditions of World War II, Mestre went through a period of intense, disorganized urban growth. Brugnaro spent nearly 30 years during the apex of this industrial period working in the Montefibre-Montedison complex, while becoming increasingly involved in the militant labor movement, eventually becoming a leading figure in the worker’s movement for 20 years. Because much of his poetry documents his life as a worker, and because he’s a self-declared communist, he is considered one of Italy’s best-known proletarian-poets. Offered today is the 1998 collection of poetry, Fist of Sun; translated by the great Jack Hirschman (1933–2021), Baby Beat Generation titan, and fellow proletarian-poet-extraordinaire. Fist of Sun is steeped in working-class concerns, bleeds with solidarity and optimism, and is at its core fundamentally a text of Marxist Theory as it is an account of Proletarian toil. As radical as it is rare, Fist of Sun is a work that any and all lovers of poetry should read! From the archive of Thomas Rain Crowe, the legendary American poet and co-authorial founder of the Second San Francisco Renaissance. For more information on the Thomas Rain Crowe archive (assembled & curated by Third Mind Books), see our book Starting From San Francisco: Thomas Rain Crowe in Conversation with Third Mind Books (item #3071) & the catalog for the Crowe archive (see item #1010), which contains several excerpts and quotations from the book as well as a full listing of the archive’s contents, which are now being offered for sale individually on the Third Mind Books site. Signed in thin red ink at first paste-down page by Jack Hirschman an inscription reads: “For Tom, Comradely best wishes, Jack. April 2, 1998.” Softcover. First edition as state at copyright page, presumed first printing though not explicate as such thereon. Book is in very fine condition with only minimal wear to fine edges and very slight smudging to front and back covers. Very Fine. [Item #7364]

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