Eugenio De Signoribus (born 1947) is an Italian poet. He was born and lives in Cupra Marittima in the province of Ascoli Piceno, Italy. He was winner in 2002 of the Castelfiorentino Literature Prize and in 2008 of the Viareggio Prize.
Swedish Academician Kjell Espmark has described him as "a more severe and rigorous voice than those to which we are accustomed. His powerfully visionary poetry frees itself from every casual or superfluous element to give emphasis to the primary conditions of existence."Preface to De Omvändas Rond, the Swedish translation of Ronda dei conversi published by the Italienska Kulturinstitutet "C.M. Lerici", Stockholm, 2011
He is a co-editor of the Istmi literary journal.istmi – Tracce di vita letteraria | semestrale di letteratura e arte | a cura di Eugenio De Signoribus, Enrico Capodaglio, Feliciano Paoli
Works Case perdute, 1976–1985 (il lavoro editoriale,1989). Istmi e chiuse, 1989–1995 (Marsilio, 1996) Principio del giorno, 1990–1999 (Garzanti, 2000) Altre educazioni, 1980–1999 (Crocetti, 2001) Memoria del chiuso mondo (Quodlibet, 2002) Ronda dei conversi (Garzanti, 2005) Poesie (1976–2007) (Garzanti, 2008) Nessun luogo è elementare (Alberto Tallone Editore, 2010) Trinità dell'esodo, 2005–2010 (Garzanti, 2011) Veglie genovesi (Il Canneto Editore, 2013) Stazioni 1994-2017 (Manni, Lecce, 2018)
Poems by De Signoribus have appeared in the following English translations:
by Christopher Whyte in Lines Review, 1994Fourteen Italian Poets for the Twenty-first Century, Lines Review no.130, 1994 by Emanuel di Pasquale in New Italian Poetry: an anthology, 2006Gradiva Publications, New York, 2006 by Christopher Whyte and V. Joshua Adams in The FSG Book of Twentieth Century Italian Poetry, 2012Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2012 pp.532-537 ed. Geoffrey Brock by Johanna Bishop, Damiano Abeni and Moira Egan in Canone Inverso, Anthology of Contemporary Italian Literature, 2014Gradiva Publications, New York, 2014 pp.159-171 ed. Pietro Montorfani by Richard Dixon in Nuovi Argomenti, 2013;Nuovi Argomenti, August 2013 The Journal of Italian Translation, 2013;The Journal of Italian Translation, vol. VIII no. 2, fall 2013, pp.11 - 21 Almost Island, 2014;Almost Island , Issue no. 11, December 2014 Italian Contemporary Poets: an anthology, 2016;Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori, 2016, pp. 81-85, ed. Franco Buffoni, The Journal of Italian Translation, 2018;The Journal of Italian Translation, vol. XIII no. 1, Spring 2018, pp.126 - 133The World Poetry Review, Issue 9, 2024
His poetry has also been translated into FrenchAu commencemente du jour, 1990–1999, trans. Thierry Gillyboeuf (La Nerthe édizions, 2011) and Swedish.De Omvändas Rond, 1999–2004, trans. Julian Birbrajer, (Italienska Kulturinstitutet "C. M. Lerici", Stockholm, 2011)
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