{"product_id":"9781803091587","title":"Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first English translation of an Italian poet known for his uncompromising integrity and strong leftist sympathy for the working man.\u003c\/b\u003e  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, \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems \u003c\/i\u003estands as a testament of tenacity, a record of class struggle, and a vital presence for our times. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59619481321804,"sku":"9781803091587","price":16.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/4163\/2076\/files\/9781803091587-121299194ba55ede_front.webp?v=1793267890","url":"https:\/\/foxandfable.com\/products\/9781803091587","provider":"Fox \u0026 Fable","version":"1.0","type":"link"}