Mindskin by Antonella Zagaroli and translated by Anamaría Crowe Serrano

This is poetry from Italy.

Mindskin by Antonella Zagaroli translated by Anamaría Crowe Serrano is published by Chelsea Editions. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780982384978E12.

Mindskin, translated from the Italian by Anamaría Crowe Serrano, brings Antonella Zagaroli’s Italian-language work into English through Chelsea Editions. Published in 2011, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Zagaroli’s title is wonderfully tactile and strange, fusing thought and body until perception itself feels like a surface that can bruise. I would begin with the poem itself: the image that refuses to behave, the phrase that gives the page a new temperature, the pressure of voice moving from one language into another. Good translated poetry does not only deliver information about Italy. It changes the reader’s sense of what English can hold, which makes this volume both a literary record and a readerly invitation.

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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.