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At an Hour’s Sleep from Here
Franca Mancinelli
Translated from Italian by John Taylor
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.
- Published
- 2020
- Publisher
- Bitter Oleander Press
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9780999327968