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Creaturing
Tiziano Fratus
Translated from Italian by Francesco Levato
Creaturing, by Tiziano Fratus and translated by Francesco Levato from Italian, brings Italian-language poetry from Italy into English through creaturely attention, ecological intimacy, and a title that turns being alive into an active verb. 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 creature, forest, body, and the animal condition inside human language, 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. Creaturing belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives Italian poetry a living, ecological, and bodily field of attention.
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Marick Press
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9781934851180