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Ladder of Oaths
Maura Del Serra
Translated from Italian by Dominic Siracusa
Ladder of Oaths, by Maura Del Serra and translated by Dominic Siracusa from Italian, brings Italian-language poetry from Italy into English through oaths, ascent, and Maura Del Serra's formal imagination climbing through promise and spiritual obligation. 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 ladder, oath, ascent, and the disciplined movement from vow to vision, 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. Ladder of Oaths belongs in the translated poetry library because it adds an Italian voice of ritual, form, and philosophical lyricism.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- Contra Mundum Press
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9781940625195