Go Tell it to the Emperor by Pierluigi Cappello and translated by Todd Portnowitz

This is poetry from Italy.

Go Tell it to the Emperor by Pierluigi Cappello translated by Todd Portnowitz is published by Spuyten Duyvil. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781949966367E12.

Go Tell it to the Emperor, by Pierluigi Cappello and translated by Todd Portnowitz from Italian, brings Italian-language poetry from Italy into English through imperial address, memory, and Pierluigi Cappello’s lyric clarity around speech sent toward power. 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 emperor, message, witness, and the old gesture of telling truth upward, 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. Go Tell it to the Emperor belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives contemporary Italian poetry a dignified, lucid, and morally alert presence.

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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