Jersey Blues, Selected Poems

By Alessandro Baruffi

Like a pilgrim, or a spiritual vagrant, crisscrossing the country—always rolling on the very fabric of the continent: westwards and eastwards, to the eternal oceans, and from the northern vast plains down through the Appalachian, to the deep recesses of the lowlands, to the swamps—infallibly enough I would always return to my dwelling in Princeton. Many a time the lonely night was devoted to the contemplation of the moon of New Jersey, as I licked the wounds of a sore soul. I always wondered, how different that pale, ghostly circle of a moon was, from the one I encountered elsewhere above the magnificent land that I had been scampering about, and from the lost moon of my childhood. Yet, with adulthood—or maturity—seeing at last the rise and fall of earthling matters, I would flinch, my heart recoiling, as from something unpleasant. Thus, through the jaundiced, estranged buoy in the sky, I would recall past memories, and hold out my quivering hand to reach over to the always-receding mysteries of existence.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alba
• Release date: Feb 26, 2020
• ISBN: 9788835377207

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JERSEY BLUES

SELECTED POEMS

Alessandro Baruffi

London, July 1998 - Philadelphia, July 2007

Jersey Blues Selected Poems

Copyright © 2012 Alessandro Baruffi

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ISBN: 978-1-300-53243-9

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In my many years in America, like a pilgrim, or a spiritual vagrant, crisscrossing the country — always rolling on the very fabric of the continent: westwards and eastwards, to the eternal oceans, and from the northern vast plains down through the Appalachian, to the deep recesses of the lowlands, to the swamps — infallibly enough, I would always return to my dwelling in