Delirious Verse

Delirious Verse
Amelia Rosselli’s Metrical Theories

Book Presentation
Delirious Verse
A Talk on Metrical Spaces
(The Last Books, 2025)

Edited by
Andrea di Serego Alighieri
Phil Baber

Translated into English by
Andrea di Serego Alighieri
Phil Baber
Jennifer Scappettone

The translators in conversation with
Isabella Livorni, NYU

In ENGLISH

Please join us for a presentation of the new book Delirious Verse, an English translation of an impromptu talk given by the Italian poet Amelia Rosselli in the early 1980s, during which she read aloud and elaborated on her trilingual poetics and dissident metrical theories. Edited and translated by Andrea di Serego Alighieri and Phil Baber. With an afterword by Andrea di Serego Alighieri and a revised translation of Rosselli’s seminal essay Metrical Spaces by Jennifer Scappettone. Published by The Last Books, Spring 2025.