HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY THE DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES, HOFSTRA COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS, LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES, AND EUROPEAN STUDIES PRESENT: THE FIRST ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN POETRY IN ITALIAN, BY NOTED POET AND TRANSLATOR
EMILIO COCO Il fiore della poesia latinoamericana d’oggi (Raffaelli Editore, 2016) Hofstra Hall/ April 27, 2017: 2: 20 pm- 3: 45 pm The roundtable discussion will include: Emilio Coco (Italy), Gregory Pell and Stanislao Pugliese (Hofstra University), and some of the poets included in the anthology: Andrea Cote (Colombia) University of Texas-El Paso, Madeline Millán (Puerto Rico) F.I.T., Eduardo Mitre (Bolivia) St. John’s University, and Miguel Ángel Zapata (Hofstra University). EMILIO COCO, born in San Marco in Lamis (Foggia), is a poet, translator and publisher. He is one of the
great scholars and translators of contemporary Spanish-American poetry in Italy. He has translated anthologies of Mexican, Spanish, Colombian and Ecuadorian poetry, and now publishes in three volumes, his anthology of Contemporary Latin American poetry in Italian (Raffaelli, 2016). His most recent works include: Antologia della poesia basca (Crocetti, Milan, 1994), three volumes of Contemporary Spagnolo Theater (Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria, 1998-2004), El fuego y las brasas. Poesia italiana contemporánea (Sial, Madrid, 2001), Los poetas vengan a los niños (Sial, Madrid, 2002), Poeti spagnoli contemporanea (Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria, (Poeti indigeni messicani) (Edizioni dell'Orso, 2010). As poet has published: Profanazioni (Levante, Bari, 1990), Le parole di semper (Amadeus , Cittadella, 1994), La memoria del vuelo (Sial, Madrid, 2002), Fingere la vita (Caramanica editore, Marina di Minturno, 2004), Contra desilusiones y tormentas (Editions Fósforo, Mexico City, 2007), Il tard amore (Passigli, Florence, 2009, Finalist Prize Pontedilegno Poesia, Prize Alessandro Ricci-Città di Garessio, Prize Città (LietoColle, Falloppio, 2008, translated into Spanish, Galician and Portuguese, Premio Caput Gauri, 2008), Il dono della notte Di Adelfia, Metauro Award, Giuria Award "Alda Merini "), El don de la noche y otros poemas (Mexico City, 2011) and some plaquettes. He directs the collections: I Quaderni di Abanico (Levante Editori, Bari) and Uni-versi (Sentieri Meridiani Edizioni, Foggia) and is editor of I Quaderni della Valle. Among the many honors and awards he has received are the Annibal Caro Prize for Translation and the Proa Prize for poetic trajectory. In 2003 the King of Spain Juan Carlos I granted him the encomienda with plate of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise. In 2010 he received the award "Alejo Zuloaga" from the University of Carabobo in Venezuela. In 2011, The Colegio de México awarded him a silver medal for his