Chronic Hearing by Cristina Annino and translated by Adria Bernardi

This is poetry from Italy.

Chronic Hearing by Cristina Annino translated by Adria Bernardi is published by Chelsea Editions. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780988478794E12.

Chronic Hearing, by Cristina Annino and translated by Adria Bernardi from Italian, brings Italian-language poetry from Italy into English through hearing, duration, and Cristina Annino’s attention to perception as something chronic rather than occasional. 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 hearing, body, duration, and the sensory persistence of language in the nerves, 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. Chronic Hearing belongs in the translated poetry library because it contributes a contemporary Italian lyric of sound, illness, and perception.

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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