Journey into the dark by Ennio Contini and translated by Michael Palma

This is poetry from Italy.

Journey into the dark by Ennio Contini translated by Michael Palma is published by Chelsea Editions. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780986106163E12.

Journey into the dark, by Ennio Contini and translated by Michael Palma from Italian, brings Italian-language poetry from Italy into English through dark journey, late passage, and Ennio Contini’s movement through night as both place and condition. 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 darkness, journey, night, and the old lyric route through fear toward perception, 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. Journey into the dark belongs in the translated poetry library because it contributes an Italian poem-space of passage, obscurity, and inward travel.

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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