Meditations in the Feminine by Michela Zanarella and translated by Leanne Hoppe

This is poetry from Italy.

Meditations in the Feminine by Michela Zanarella translated by Leanne Hoppe is published by Bordighera Press. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781599541105E12.

Meditations in the Feminine, by Michela Zanarella and translated by Leanne Hoppe, presents itself as a reflective, intimate Italian collection concerned with gendered inwardness and the forms of attention that gather around it. The title is broad, but usefully so: meditation suggests thought slowed down enough to hear itself, while “the feminine” opens questions of body, voice, inheritance, and social pressure. I would read this book for its quieter insistence, the sense that lyric speech can become a room where private feeling is allowed to take form without apology. Hoppe’s translation gives English-language readers access to contemporary Italian work that seems less interested in spectacle than in presence. Some poems do not shout their resistance. They keep returning to the self until the self becomes legible.

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