All the Eyes That I Have Opened by Franca Mancinelli and translated by John Taylor

This is poetry from Italy.

All the Eyes That I Have Opened by Franca Mancinelli translated by John Taylor is published by Off The Park Press, Black Square Editiions. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2023.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780999702895E12.

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.

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