Creaturing by Tiziano Fratus and translated by Francesco Levato

This is poetry from Italy.

Creaturing by Tiziano Fratus translated by Francesco Levato is published by Marick Press. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78193485118E12.

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.

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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