Poem Strip

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Dino Buzzati is a luminary of the mid-20th century Italian literary avant-garde and the author of a modern classic, The Tartar Steppe. He was also an accomplished visual artist. Poem Strip, from 1968, unites his various talents in a pioneering graphic novel that relocates the story of Orpheus and Eurydice to a ghostly version of modern Milan. The Orpheus figure is a guitarist and Eurydice is Eura, who is no sooner seen and desired than lost. Her lover follows her into an underworld of temptation and delusion, at once bar, strip joint, hall of mirrors, horror show, and tunnel of love. He tells stories to wake the dead-outlandish tales that open up strange metaphysical perspectives within the self-and returns with a precious secret that may be everything or nothing.

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A tragic, if psychedelic, rendering of the Orpheus myth. Scottish Sunday Herald

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Dino Buzzati (1906-1972) was a painter, playwright, poet, novelist, short story writer, opera librettist, mountaineer, and science fiction writer, and-from the age of twenty-two until his death-worked as a journalist with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. The New York Review Children's Collection publishes his The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily. Marina Harss is a translator and dance writer in New York City. Recent translations include Elizabeth Subercaseaux's A Week in October, Alberto Moravia's Conjugal Love and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Stories From the City of God.