At an Hour’s Sleep from Here by Franca Mancinelli and translated by John Taylor

This is poetry from Italy.

At an Hour’s Sleep from Here by Franca Mancinelli translated by John Taylor is published by Bitter Oleander Press. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2020.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780999327968E12.

At an Hour’s Sleep from Here, by Franca Mancinelli and translated by John Taylor from Italian, brings Italian-language poetry from Italy into English through sleep, nearness, and Franca Mancinelli’s delicate scale of distance. 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 sleep, hour, nearness, and the almost-touch that makes lyric space feel intimate, 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. At an Hour’s Sleep from Here belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives contemporary Italian poetry a hushed, precise, and bodily register.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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