Antonia Pozzi

Antonia Pozzi (1912–1938) was a poet and photographer born in Milan, who took her life in 1938. None of her poetry was published during her lifetime. Among her papers were notebooks containing over three hundred poems, a number of which were posthumously altered by her father Roberto, and then published. In 1989, editors Alessandra Cenni and Onorina Dino restored the poems to their original form in Parole (Àncora, 2015), an authoritative text of Pozzi’s poetry, the most recently revised edition of which is Tutte le opere (Garzanti, 2009), edited by Cenni. Writer and biographer Graziella Bernabò has said of Pozzi that she was “not only . . . one of the most interesting voices in Italian poetry of the 1920s and 1930s, but also a figure ahead of her time, a forerunner of a later vision of life and poetic sensitivity.”