Piranesi Author:Pierre Seghers This haunting poetic sequence has the kind of hallucinatory power found in the artworks that inspired it. The eighteenth century Italian engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi created a series of `imaginary prisons,' Carceri d'invenzione, full of twisting catwalks and looming vaults. Seghers (1906-87), a French poet little known in the English-read... more »ing world, meditated on the various imprisonments of human life. Informed as much by Segher's experience of thwarted love as by his life as a French Resistance worker, the poems are dreamlike, both compactly solid and utterly permeable. The translations...are brilliant, clear, and inventive. An unusual and satisfying book"" - Booklist. ""His is a poetry of movement and change, of light brought into labyrinthine dark places"" - Tranlsation Review.« less