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Amnesia of the movement of clouds & of red and black verse
Maria Attanasio
Translated from Italian by Carla Billitteri
Amnesia of the movement of clouds & of red and black verse, by Maria Attanasio and translated by Carla Billitteri from Italian, brings Italian-language poetry from Italy into English through clouds, amnesia, and color as a field where memory and motion blur. 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 clouds, amnesia, color, and the uncertain drift between forgetting and visual intensity, 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. Amnesia of the movement of clouds & of red and black verse belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives contemporary Italian poetry a painterly, mobile, and experimental register.
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Litmus Press
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9781933959429