Geometry of Shadows by Giorgio De Chirico and translated by Stefania Heim

This is poetry from Italy.

Geometry of Shadows by Giorgio De Chirico translated by Stefania Heim is published by Public Space Books, A. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780998267548E12.

Geometry of Shadows, by Giorgio De Chirico and translated by Stefania Heim from Italian, brings Italian-language poetry from Italy into English through De Chirico’s shadow-geometry, visual art, and metaphysical Italian strangeness translated into poems. 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 shadows, geometry, painting, and the eerie logic of streets, statues, and dream-perspective, 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. Geometry of Shadows belongs in the translated poetry library because it connects the library’s poetry shelf to visual modernism and metaphysical art.

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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