My voice seeks you by Annelisa Addolorato and translated by Bill Wolak, Maria Bennett

This is poetry from Italy.

My voice seeks you by Annelisa Addolorato translated by Bill Wolak, Maria Bennett is published by Cross-Cultural Communications. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780893049911E12.

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.

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