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    Punta Righini (English Edition)
    Punta Righini (English Edition)
    Punta Righini (English Edition)
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    Punta Righini (English Edition)

    By Tommaso Tosco

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    Poems in the best tradition of Italian Hermeticism.
    “It is an intense and pregnant collection, in which is impossibile not to discover a feeling, a fragment of life, a wound that each of us, aware or not, carries inside.” (Maria Grazia Di Biagio)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTommaso Tosco
    Release dateFeb 19, 2013
    ISBN9788867556137
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      Punta Righini (English Edition) - Tommaso Tosco

      Tommaso Tosco 

      PUNTA RIGHINI 

      Translated by Gordon Fisher for AlfaBeta

      PREFACE 

      Tommaso Tosco, the pseudonym of Giorgio Agretti, confesses that he had always written, but that he had never had the time to re-read, correct, linger on his pages, distracted as he was by his day-to-day commitments, by the struggle with life – it was a struggle that at a certain point became bitter, a real battle, when he had to overcome some very tough challenges. Finding himself forced to take a time-out, he returned to his accumulated papers and realised that over the years he had annotated flashes of his soul, his dreams, that secret

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