Book record
Only fragments found
Giovanna Sandri
Translated from Italian by Faust Paoluzzi
Only fragments found, by Giovanna Sandri and translated by Faust Pauluzzi and Guy Bennett, sounds like an ars poetica of incompletion. Sandri’s Italian work is associated with visual poetry, fragmentation, and experimental attention to the material conditions of language. The title tells us not to expect wholeness, and that is freeing. A fragment is not a failed whole; it is a form with its own pressure, edge, and light. I would read Only fragments found for the pleasure of partiality, the way broken or isolated units of language can generate more mystery than a completed argument. The collaborative translation is fitting for a book interested in pieces and assembly. Poetry here becomes an archaeological act: not restoring the lost object, but honoring what remains.
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Otis Books – Seismicity Editions
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9780986017315