Beast of Joy by Mariangela Gualtieri and translated by Anthony Molino

This is poetry from Italy.

Beast of Joy by Mariangela Gualtieri translated by Anthony Molino is published by Xenos Books / Chelsea Editions. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780986106187E12.

Beast of Joy, by Mariangela Gualtieri and translated by Anthony Molino from Italian, brings Italian-language poetry from Italy into English through joy made creaturely, devotional intensity, and Mariangela Gualtieri’s ecstatic bodily music. 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 beast, joy, body, and the feral sweetness of praise that refuses politeness, 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. Beast of Joy belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives contemporary Italian poetry a passionate, theatrical, and embodied presence.

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