Book record
Hospital series
Amelia Rosselli
Translated from Italian by Giuseppe Leporace, Roberta Antognini Deborah Woodard
Hospital series, by Amelia Rosselli and translated by Giuseppe Leporace, Roberta Antognini Deborah Woodard from Italian, brings Italian-language poetry from Italy into English through hospital rooms, illness, and Amelia Rosselli's formally charged confrontation with body and institution. 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 hospital, illness, syntax, and the pressure of being held inside systems of care and damage, 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. Hospital series belongs in the translated poetry library because it belongs as a difficult and important Italian experimental work of pain and form.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9780811223973