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Last Stops of the Night Journey
Milo De Angelis
Translated from Italian by Susan Stewart
Last Stops of the Night Journey, by Milo De Angelis and translated by Susan Stewart from Italian, brings Italian-language poetry from Italy into English through night journey, terminal spaces, and Milo De Angelis's stark lyric attention to endings. 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 night, stops, journey, and the stations where memory, death, and desire wait together, 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. Last Stops of the Night Journey belongs in the translated poetry library because it belongs as a major contemporary Italian work of darkness, intensity, and existential precision.
- Published
- 2026
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9781962770637