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All the Eyes That I Have Opened
Franca Mancinelli
Translated from Italian by John Taylor
All the Eyes That I Have Opened, by Franca Mancinelli and translated by John Taylor from Italian, brings Italian-language poetry from Italy into English through attention, perception, and Franca Mancinelli's title suggesting the labor of opening the eyes. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for eyes, awakening, attention, and the fragile courage of looking without defense, not as a fixed lesson about Italy. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. All the Eyes That I Have Opened belongs in the translated poetry library because it offers contemporary Italian lyric as an act of quiet vigilance.
- Published
- 2023
- Publisher
- Off The Park Press, Black Square Editiions
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9780999702895