Short Stories for a Year, by Luigi Pirandello 🇮🇹🖋️🇺🇸

Luigi Pirandello, the Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright, novelist, and short story writer, is widely celebrated for his profound exploration of identity, reality, and human psychology. Despite his substantial influence on 20th-century literature and drama, much of his work, especially his short stories, remains underexplored in the English-speaking world. This new translation of a selection of Pirandello’s short stories aims to bridge this gap, offering readers … Continue reading Short Stories for a Year, by Luigi Pirandello 🇮🇹🖋️🇺🇸

Dark Love Sonnets, by Federico García Lorca ✒️🇪🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Today, June 5, marks the 127th anniversary of the birth of Federico García Lorca — poet, playwright, visionary. To celebrate it, Blue Phoenix Editions published the expanded edition of the ebook with the bilingual edition of his two great posthumous collections: “Dark Love Sonnets” and “Diván del Tamarit”. Verses written in the fire of his last years, never published during his life, never forgotten. If you haven’t met Lorca in English yet, this is the right time. Continue reading Dark Love Sonnets, by Federico García Lorca ✒️🇪🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Foglie d’erba, di Walt Whitman 🇺🇸✒️🇮🇹

Walt Whitman è stato un poeta americano e un umanista. È considerato uno dei poeti più influenti degli Stati Uniti. La sua poesia era un riflesso dei suoi pensieri e sentimenti sulla democrazia, la natura, la sessualità, la morte e molti altri argomenti. Mentre commemoriamo l’anniversario della nascita di Walt Whitman, è un momento per riflettere sul profondo impatto che questa figura imponente ha avuto … Continue reading Foglie d’erba, di Walt Whitman 🇺🇸✒️🇮🇹

Mouvement, de Rimbaud 💡✒️🇫🇷

Mouvement – Les Illuminations – Arthur Rimbaud – 1873 – with translations from 🇫🇷 French into 🇬🇧 English and 🇮🇹 Italian by Enzo Martinelli © 2025 Enzo Martinelli Le mouvement de lacet sur la berge des chutes du fleuve,Le gouffre à l’étambotLa célérité de la rampe,L’énorme passade du courantMènent par les lumières inouïesEt la nouveauté chimiqueLes voyageurs entourés des trombes du valEt du strom.Ce sont … Continue reading Mouvement, de Rimbaud 💡✒️🇫🇷

Versi illuminati, di Arthur Rimbaud 🇫🇷✒️🇮🇹

Arthur Rimbaud è uno dei maggiori poeti francesi del XIX secolo. La sua poesia è famosa in tutto il mondo ed è anche considerato una figura di spicco nel movimento romantico francese. Molti considerano la sua vita e la sua poesia un esperimento di libertinismo ed edonismo andato terribilmente storto. Altri pensano che i suoi eccessi fossero semplicemente un riflesso del suo carattere; era naturalmente … Continue reading Versi illuminati, di Arthur Rimbaud 🇫🇷✒️🇮🇹

Arthur Rimbaud ✒️📃🇬🇧

A very early poet with a very short literary life, Arthur Rimbaud began writing poems as a teenager and stopped writing at the age of 20, completely abandoning his obvious poetic talent. During his period of literary creation, he was linked to another French poet, Paul Verlaine, with whom he spent a few years in London. Universally recognised as one of the precursors of symbolism … Continue reading Arthur Rimbaud ✒️📃🇬🇧