Book record
My voice seeks you
Annelisa Addolorato
Translated from Italian by Bill Wolak
My voice seeks you, by Annelisa Addolorato and translated by Bill Wolak and Maria Bennett, announces itself as a book of address. The title is simple and vulnerable: voice as search, speech as an attempt to reach another body, another listener, another absence. Addolorato’s Italian poetry, brought into English through a collaborative translation, seems to belong to the lyric tradition where intimacy is not ornamental but central. I would read this book for its direct emotional architecture. The “you” may be beloved, reader, memory, ghost, or self, and the poem becomes the distance between speaker and addressee. That is one of poetry’s oldest engines, but it remains powerful when handled honestly. A voice seeks because it has not yet arrived.
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cross-Cultural Communications
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9780893049911