Blackout by Nanni Balestrini and translated by Peter Valente

This is poetry from Italy.

Blackout by Nanni Balestrini translated by Peter Valente is published by A K Press. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781934639214E12.

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.

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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