Professor Antonello Borra
Why does the Yeti avoid us?
Because “humans are beasts!” says Antonello Bora, our guest of April 20.
In his first visit to Writers@WRUV, Professor Borra reads his original work in Italian and English, and he even offers up some work yet to be published this fall by Burlington-based publisher Fomite, a new press started by local fiction writer Marc Estrin.
“I think that poetry is always an activity that has moral responsibilities, and I think that as a writer you do have to try and make your audience aware of issues that are common to each one of us and not just to the individual poet,” Borra says.
Listen to the interview and reading here.
Antonella Borra was born in Italy. He graduated from the University of Turin, Italy, in 1988. He earned his MA (1993) and PhD (1998) from Brown University.
From 1998 to 2001, he was an assistant professor of Italian at Ithaca College in New York.
In 2001 he joined the faculty of the department of romance languages at the University of Vermont as an aassociate professor of Italian.
He is a poet, a translator and a scholar. He is the author of multiple volumes of poetry as well as books of criticism and language pedagogy, including Italian Through Film: A Text for Italian Courses and Italian Through Film: The Classics.
