Patrizia Cavalli

Italian poet Patrizia Cavalli was born in Todi, a municipality of the province of Perugia in central Italy, and lives in Rome. She is the author of many poetry collections, including Con passi giapponesi (2019), My Poems Won’t Change the World: Selected Poems (2013), Datura (2013), Flighty Matters (2012), Pigre divinità e pigra sorte (2006), Sempre aperto teatro (1999), and L’io singolare proprio mio (1992). Her poems have been translated by Jorie Graham, Jonathan Galassi, Kenneth Koch, Mark Strand, Susan Stewart, and Rosanna Warren, among others. Cavalli has also published translations of William Shakespeare and Molière.