A poetic journey through New York City, which in 2016 welcomed the Italian poet Sara Fruner with all its harsh contradictions. Urban beauty — Sara would soon find out — can sparkle with horror and trauma: this surprising contrast opened up a new emotional territory that her imagination was eager to explore. The poet will walk us through her urban poetic experience, and read from her volume, Bitter Bites from Sugar Hills (Bordighera Press, New York).
“Fruner nails the city with clear, fresh perceptions that work like silk on the page. She owns her words with personality and originality in this high-calibre collection.”
(The Washington Independent Review of Books)
An event offered by the Dante Alighieri Society of BC
in collaboration with the Dante Alighieri Society in Rome
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Born in Riva del Garda, Trentino, and relocated to New York City, Sara Fruner is an Italian novelist, bilingual poet, and literary translator. Bitter Bites from Sugar Hills (Bordighera Press), her first collection of poems in English, came out in 2018, and Lucciole in palmo alla notte, her first volume in Italian, in 2019. Her new collection, La rossa goletta, is forthcoming. Year 2020 marked her acclaimed debut in fiction with L’istante largo, which received the second prize in the Severino Cesari National Award for Debut Novel 2021. Her second novel, La notte
del bene, was released in 2022.
