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Geometry of Shadows
Giorgio De Chirico
Translated from Italian by Stefania Heim
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.
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Public Space Books, A
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9780998267548