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Haiku for a season
Andrea Zanzotto
Translated from Italian by Anna Secco
Haiku for a season, by Andrea Zanzotto and translated by Anna Secco from Italian, brings Italy Italian-language poetry into English through seasonal attention filtered through Zanzotto's late lyric intelligence. 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 haiku, weather, brevity, and the old pleasure of noticing a year through small changes, not as a fixed lesson about a country or period. 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. Haiku for a season belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives Italian poetry a form of compressed ecological listening.
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9780226922218