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Blackout
Nanni Balestrini
Translated from Italian by Peter Valente
Blackout, by Nanni Balestrini and translated by Peter Valente from Italian, brings Italian-language poetry from Italy into English through blackout, political rupture, and Nanni Balestrini's experimental attention to mass media and social conflict. 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 blackout, revolt, media, and the noise of history when language loses power, 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. Blackout belongs in the translated poetry library because it adds Italian neo-avant-garde and political experiment to the library.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- A K Press
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9781934639214