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'''Menotti Lerro''' (born 22 February 1980) is a [[poet]], [[writer]] and [[Italian]] [[academic]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ciels.it/avada_portfolio/lerro-menotti/|title=Lerro Menotti}}</ref> born in [[Omignano]], [[Salerno]].
'''Menotti Lerro''' (born 22 February 1980) is a [[poet]], [[writer]] and [[Italian]] [[academic]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ciels.it/avada_portfolio/lerro-menotti/|title=Lerro Menotti}}</ref> born in [[Omignano]], [[Salerno]].
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Born in his house, [[Omignano]], [[Salerno]], the first son, following three daughters, of a carpenter and seamstress, Menotti Lerro experienced a very hard childhood as himself highlighted in his semi-autobiographical novel ''Augusto Orrel. Memorie d'orrore e poesia'' (2007) where, according to Andrew Mangham, it is possible to find "a modern manifestation of Goethe’s Werther: a melancholy and passionate young man whose sorrows are outlined in a language that is both striking and raw."<ref name="auto">''The Poetry of Menotti Lerro'', Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011</ref>
Born in his house, [[Omignano]], [[Salerno]], the first son, following three daughters, of a carpenter and seamstress, Menotti Lerro experienced a very hard childhood as himself highlighted in his semi-autobiographical novel ''Augusto Orrel. Memorie d'orrore e poesia'' (2007) where, according to Andrew Mangham, it is possible to find "a modern manifestation of Goethe’s Werther: a melancholy and passionate young man whose sorrows are outlined in a language that is both striking and raw."<ref name="auto">''The Poetry of Menotti Lerro'', Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011</ref>
In this book Lerro describes how the young Augusto is forced to play the role of father to his own father due to the latter’s increasing level of psychological delusion. Unsurprisingly, the protagonist begins to feel an enormous and disproportionate amount of responsibility on his young shoulders. The illness of his father has been one of the strongest influence to the shape and texture of his work...<ref>Mangham, Andrew (2012). The Poetry of Menotti Lerro. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-4438-4022-4.</ref>
In this book Lerro describes how the young Augusto is forced to play the role of father to his own father due to the latter’s increasing level of psychological delusion. Unsurprisingly, the protagonist begins to feel an enormous and disproportionate amount of responsibility on his young shoulders. The illness of his father has been one of the strongest influence to the shape and texture of his work...<ref>Mangham, Andrew (2012). The Poetry of Menotti Lerro. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-4438-4022-4.</ref>
His first collection of poetry was published in [[Florence]] by the historical literary [[Caffé Giubbe Rosse]] in 2003.<ref>Mangham, Andrew (2012). The Poetry of Menotti Lerro. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-4438-4022-4.</ref>
His first collection of poetry was published in [[Florence]] by the historical literary [[Caffé Giubbe Rosse]] in 2003.<ref>Mangham, Andrew (2012). The Poetry of Menotti Lerro. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-4438-4022-4.</ref>


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Menotti Lerro (born 22 February 1980) is a poet, writer and Italian academic[1] born in Omignano, Salerno.

Early Life

Born in his house, Omignano, Salerno, the first son, following three daughters, of a carpenter and seamstress, Menotti Lerro experienced a very hard childhood as himself highlighted in his semi-autobiographical novel Augusto Orrel. Memorie d'orrore e poesia (2007) where, according to Andrew Mangham, it is possible to find "a modern manifestation of Goethe’s Werther: a melancholy and passionate young man whose sorrows are outlined in a language that is both striking and raw."[2] In this book Lerro describes how the young Augusto is forced to play the role of father to his own father due to the latter’s increasing level of psychological delusion. Unsurprisingly, the protagonist begins to feel an enormous and disproportionate amount of responsibility on his young shoulders. The illness of his father has been one of the strongest influence to the shape and texture of his work...[3] His first collection of poetry was published in Florence by the historical literary Caffé Giubbe Rosse in 2003.[4]

Career

After winning a scholarship, Lerro studies English and Spanish Languages and Literatures at University of Salerno, starting in 2000, and getting his degree in 2004.[5] While there, he had his first experience abroad living and studying in Oxford for seven months as an "Exchange Student". An experience he will always remember as very lovely and formative, "changing me a lot, opening my mind as a young man and student".[6] In 2006, after he worked for one year in Milan for Mondadori publishing house, he gets a Scholarship from the University of Salerno to study abroad and begins the Masters' degree in “The Body and Representation” at the University of Reading under the supervision of Carolyn Williams Lyle.[7] Following, he gets the expert status of “Cultore della Materia” at the University of Salerno[8] and in 2010 became Visiting Scholar at the University of Reading where he undertakes postgraduate teaching, too.[9] Later, after completing his Phd in English and Spanish literature at the University of Salerno, gets the same status of Visiting Scholar at the University of Warwick (2014)[10] and at the University of Edinburgh (2020).[11] He taught English Culture and Civilization and English Literature at Ciels University of Milan for four years (2014-2018)[12] before moving to Padua to teach the same subjects.[13] In addition, collaborate and gave lessons at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and IULM University.[14]

Critical reception

According to Andrew Mangham "Menotti Lerro is one of the most interesting poets in modern-day Europe".[15] The same Mangham stresses like in 2009, the Italian author "was described by one of Italy’s most influential critics, Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti, as a writer of no insignificant importance: [Lerro’s] new collection in verse, so dense and vigorous in the essential lucidity of images, memories, adventures of the senses and of the thought. His poetry has become rich, vital, always persuasive and forceful, often brilliant."[2] Menotti Lerro earliest published poetry received numerous noticed and a large number of reviews were collected in a volume edited by Maria Rosaria La Marca.[16] In addition Francesco D'Espiscopo from University of Naples Federico II has dedicated to Lerro two monographs. The first about his poetry[17] and the other about his novels and dramas.[18] On the magazine "Poesia", Roberto Carifi affirms that Menotti Lerro is one of the most interesting italian poets.[19] One of his dramas has been the subject of a degree dissertation by Sara Cudia from the University of Palermo. The same work became later the base for a critical volume about the innovative figure of a female and bisexual Don Giovanni written by Lerro in 2015.[20] In 2008 Mondadori’s important literary magazine Nuovi Argomenti selects Lerro as one of the poets to represent the new generation of poets born in the 1980s.[21]

Bibliography

Poetry

  • Ceppi incerti (Giubbe Rosse: 2003)
  • Passi di libertà silenzione (Plectica: 2004)
  • Senza Cielo (Guida: 2006)
  • Tra-vestito e l'anima (Il Melograno: 2007)
  • Sento che ne è valsa la pena (Il Melograno: 2007)
  • Primavera (Il filo: 2008 - Ladolfi: 2017) [Preface by Roberto Carifi]
  • I dieci comandamenti (Lietocolle: 2009) [Prefaces by Vincenzo Guarracino e Giuliano Ladolfi]
  • Gli Occhi sul Tempo (Manni: 2009) [Prefaces by Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti e Walter Mauro]
  • Profumi d'Estate (Zona: 2010) [Preface by Luigi Cannillo]
  • Il mio bambino (Genesi: 2010) [Prefaces by Roberto Carifi, Giuseppe Lupo, Francesco D'Episcopo e Sandro Gros-Pietro]
  • Nel nome del padre (Genesi: 2012) [Preface by Giuseppe Gentile]
  • Gli anni di Cristo (Zona: 2013)
  • Entropia del cuore (Zona: 2015) [Preface by Carla Perugini]
  • Pane e Zucchero (Ladolfi: 2016) [Preface by Giuliano Ladolfi]
  • Decanto (Ladolfi: 2017) [Prefazione di Davide Rondoni]
  • Canto randagio dal Cilento (Ladolfi: 2019) [Preface by Giuliano Ladolfi]
  • Estate (Ladolfi: 2020) [Preface by Giampiero Neri]

Poetry in translation

  • Poesías Elegidas translated by Ana María Pinedo López (Zona, 2010) - Prefaces by Carla Perugini and Alessandro Serpieri
  • Selected Poems translated by Maria Rosaria La Marca and Andrew Mangham (Genesi: 2011)
  • Poeme Alese translated Simona Samulescu (Genesi: 2013). A project coordinated by Lidia Vianu from the University of Bucharest.

Visual poetry

Prose

  • Augusto Orrel (Joker: 2007)
  • Il diario di Mary e altri racconti (Zona: 2009)
  • Fuga da Orrel/Flucht vor Orrel (Zona: 2010) - Prefaced and translated into German language by Maria Brunner
  • 2084 (Zona: 2013)
  • I mostri di Anoir (Guida: 2019)

Theater

  • Donna Giovanna (Zona: 2015) - Preface by Francesco D'Episcopo
  • Il Gorilla (Genesi: 2015) - Preface by Sandro Gros-Pietro
  • Donna Giovanna, l'ingannatrice di Salerno (Zona:2016) - Prefaces by Francesco D'Episcopo and Maria Rita Parsi
  • Donna Giovanna, l'ingannatrice di Salerno (Opera Libretto - Zona: 2017) - Prefaces by Maurizio Cucchi and Enrico Renna
  • Il dottor Faust (Zona: 2018) - Preface by Maria Rita Paarsi
  • La solitudine dei miti (Genesi: 2021)

Aphorism

  • Aforismi (Il melograno: 2007)
  • Aforismi di una notte (Il melograno: 2008)
  • Aforismi e pensieri (Zona: 2013)

Music CD

  • I Battiti della Notte (Zona: 2015)

(In 2015 three concerts have been performed in Poland (krakow, Warsaw and Gdańsk, organized by Italian Institute of Culture).[23]

Criticism

  • I Poeti Senza Cielo (Il Melograno: 2007)
  • L’io lirico nella poesia autobiografica (Zona: 2009)
  • La tela del poeta (Genesi: 2010)
  • Raccontarsi in versi (Carocci: 2012)
  • Autobiographical Poetry in England and Spain, 1950-1980 (Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2017)
  • The Body in Autobiography and Autobiographical Novels: The Importance of Being Normal (Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2018)

Awards and Honors

Copac and Opac catalogues

External links

References

  1. ^ "Lerro Menotti".
  2. ^ a b The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011
  3. ^ Mangham, Andrew (2012). The Poetry of Menotti Lerro. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 3. ISBN 978-1-4438-4022-4.
  4. ^ Mangham, Andrew (2012). The Poetry of Menotti Lerro. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-4438-4022-4.
  5. ^ Mangham, Andrew (2012). The Poetry of Menotti Lerro. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-4438-4022-4.
  6. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgFRBCjqTxo&t=11s
  7. ^ Mangham, Andrew (2012). The Poetry of Menotti Lerro. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-4438-4022-4.
  8. ^ Mangham, Andrew (2012). The Poetry of Menotti Lerro. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-4438-4022-4.
  9. ^ Mangham, Andrew (2012). The Poetry of Menotti Lerro. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-4438-4022-4.
  10. ^ D'Episcopo, Francesco (2019). Menotti Lerro. Tra Drammaturgia e Narrativa. Torino: Genesi Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 9788874147199.
  11. ^ https://www.ciels.it/avada_portfolio/lerro-menotti/
  12. ^ https://www.ciels.it/avada_portfolio/lerro-menotti/
  13. ^ https://www.ciels.it/avada_portfolio/lerro-menotti/
  14. ^ https://www.ciels.it/avada_portfolio/lerro-menotti/
  15. ^ Andrew Mangham, The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011
  16. ^ Maria Rosaria La Marca, Gli occhi sulla critica, Zona, 2010
  17. ^ Francesco D'Episcopo, "Entropia del cuore" di Menotti Lerro. Segreti e suggestioni, Zona 2020
  18. ^ Francesco D'Episcopo, Menotti Lerro. Tra drammaturgia e narrativa, Genesi 2019.
  19. ^ Nota di Roberto Carifi – via www.genesi.org.
  20. ^ Sara Cudia, Donna Giovanna di Menotti Lerro. L’innovazione del mito. Zona, Genova 2020.
  21. ^ ‎Nuovi Argomenti (41) – via books.apple.com.
  22. ^ "Provincia di Salerno - Alla Pinacoteca provinciale la Mostra "Ritagli" di Menotti Lerro". www.provincia.salerno.it.
  23. ^ gdansk.pl, wydarzenia-. "I BATTITI DELLA NOTTE - Wieczór poetycko-muzyczny ze specjalnym udziałem poety z Mediolanu". www.gdansk.pl.
  24. ^ https://www.discogs.com/Tomasz-Krezymon-Menotti-Lerro-I-Battiti-della-notte/release/11764885
  25. ^ "I Battiti dell Notte - Paulina Martini, Tomasz Krezymon, Menotti Lerro | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic".
  26. ^ D'Episcopo, Francesco (2020). Entropia del cuore di Menotti Lerro. Torino: Genesi Publishing. p. 118. ISBN 9788864388762.
  27. ^ D'Episcopo, Francesco (2020). Entropia del cuore di Menotti Lerro. Torino: Genesi Publishing. p. 118. ISBN 9788864388762.
  28. ^ D'Episcopo, Francesco (2020). Entropia del cuore di Menotti Lerro. Torino: Genesi Publishing. p. 115. ISBN 9788864388762.
  29. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFz7j9ZDukE&t=23s
  30. ^ "Search Results | Library Hub".
  31. ^ Senza cielo. Guida. 2006. ISBN 9788860421111.
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