Book record
A Selection of Modern Italian Poetry in Translation
Anthology
A Selection of Modern Italian Poetry in Translation is an anthology of Italian poetry, translated by Roberta L. Payne, published by McGill-Queen's University Press. It is an anthology of modern Italian poetry in translation, selected and translated by Roberta L. Payne. As an anthology, it offers readers a structured entrance into a varied modern tradition, where lyric inheritance, politics, form, and private music keep changing relations. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy