Book record
Days Last Forever
Mario dell'Arco
Translated from Romanesco by Marc Alan Di Martino
Days Last Forever by Mario dell'Arco, translated from Romanesco by Marc Alan Di Martino and published by World Poetry Books, is a book rooted in Italy. Dell’Arco’s Days Last Forever, translated from Romanesco by Marc Alan Di Martino, gives English-language readers access to a city-language and literary tradition too often flattened into standard Italian. The title has a melancholy generosity: days extending, memory refusing closure, ordinary time becoming almost mythic. I would read this book for locality, for the music of Romanesco carried across languages, and for the way dialect can preserve a life-world that standard speech might miss. Its value in the library is not only informational, but atmospheric: it gives readers another way to hear how a language thinks.
- Publisher
- World Poetry Books
- Language
- Romanesco
- Country
- Italy