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Historiae
Antonella Anedda
Translated from Italian by Susan Stewart, Patrizio Ceccagnoli
Historiae, by Antonella Anedda and translated by Susan Stewart, Patrizio Ceccagnoli from Italian, brings Italy Italian-language poetry into English through history, body, and civic memory moving through Anedda's austere contemporary lyric. 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 ruins, witness, archival pressure, and the way private grief can touch public time, 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. Historiae belongs in the translated poetry library because it places contemporary Italian poetry in direct conversation with history's residue.
- Published
- 2023
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9781681376967