Love-In-Idleness

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By John Bradley

1989 Washington Prize winner

Bradley portrays Roberto Zingarello, a fictitious, postwar Italian poet who bursts onto the horizon hauling the weight of the Twentieth Century. Mussonlini, Pound, Vallejo, Rilke haunt his imagination. Zingarello has an enormous appetite for love, truth, revenge. Cover art by Erica Daborn. Second edition.

About John Bradley

John Bradley is the author of Terrestrial Music, War on Words, You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know, and Trancelumination. He has edited three anthologies: Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age; Learning to Glow: A Nuclear Reader; and Eating the Pure Light: Homage to Thomas McGrath. Recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a Pushcart Prize, he teaches at Northern Illinois University.

Praise for Love-In-Idleness

“We need more characters like Zingarello in American poetry and more poets like Bradley who will step out of bounds to shake us with writing that is so different and important.”
—Ray Gonzalez, The Bloomsbury Review

“With Love-In-Idleness, John Bradley enters the world of fictive poetry, and we are the richer for it. In Zingarello, Bradley has created a voice big enough to express the human dream of transcending history.”
—Bill Tremblay, author of The June Rise

“The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.”
—Benito Mussolini

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