Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Italian by Emmanuel Pasquale. The deeply subtle, psychological poems of Buffoni are best quoted: "Once upon a non-time/ I lacked patience with lying children:/ transparency and loyalty fed/ unconditional love/ otherwise no way/ and I restarted from scrap./ Now I save my words I don't waste a glance/ I carefully keep the small rubber band/ the string the clipping;/ I even reassemble truthful puzzles of lies."
