{"product_id":"selected-poems-65","title":"Selected Poems","description":"The first English translation of an Italian poet known for his uncompromising integrity and strong leftist sympathy for the working man. Born in a sub-proletarian ghetto in Italy in 1930 under the fascist regime, Luigi Di Ruscio was an urchin running wild in the countryside, a Communist with clear anarchist leanings, a jack-of-all-trades. In 1957 he emigrated to Oslo, where he worked for forty years in a steel-wire factory, spending his evenings at the typewriter, delving with furious energy into his native Italian. Di Ruscio insisted that whereas the language of power is always a contrived, one-way fabrication, the language of the underprivileged is upfront and direct, aiming straight and sharp for the truth. Caustic as a shopfloor scouring agent, exhilarating in its overabundance, humor, and outspokenness, Selected Poems stands as a testament of tenacity, a record of class struggle, and a vital presence for our times. ","brand":"Seagull Books London Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57829179294031,"sku":"9781803091587","price":39.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/selected-poems-65","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}