Ladder of Oaths by Maura Del Serra and translated by Dominic Siracusa

This is poetry from Italy.

Ladder of Oaths by Maura Del Serra translated by Dominic Siracusa is published by Contra Mundum Press. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781940625195E12.

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.

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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