DREAMING MARGARITAS

By ROBERTO PORCELLI TRENTI

As masterful as it is crude, passionate and profound, Dreaming Margaritas is a hymn and a song of protest. This brilliant collection takes us inside the emotions of the author as expressed through the land and the rivers of the Po valley, the dreamlike landscapes, the lies of lovers and charlatans. It is a poem that celebrates the contours of daily life while exploring and delighting in the space between thought and experience, reminding the reader that it is we who decide what is good and what is unacceptable.


Roberto Porcelli Trenti was born in Bologna in 1959. Among his works are the collections of poems entitled La Lunga Estate, Sul Margine dei Nuovi Segreti (Edizioni Tracce/1986-1989) and Toxic Emilia (Aracne/2017). His novel Cinema Olimpico, published in 2012, is set in the Parma of the 60’s and the 70’s and in the Dublin of our times.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781471025983

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ROBERTO PORCELLI TRENTI

DREAMING MARGARITAS

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First Italian Edition: February 2022

  English Edition: October 2022

Translated by Patricia Stumpp for Kosmos Translations, Italy

Cover picture: Lame di Luce by Lucia Lula Serra

The places in this collection are real but the events and the people

are not. Any reference to actual people, things or facts is purely coincidental.

As always,

To my family

Necessity is that which in virtue

of itself is impossible to be otherwise.

JAMES JOYCE, Ulysses

-1-

If I’d only had less cover

Or a breakdown,

So not to arrive,

I,

Who believed,

Take one step forward

toward resurrection.

-2-

Propelled toward fear

To speak of us ourselves

Fearing honeyed connections

While we validate

Impending dangerous conflicts,

And I