Book record
Reports after the Fire
Pietro de Marchi
Translated from Italian by Peter Robinson
Reports after the Fire by Pietro de Marchi, translated from Italian by Peter Robinson and published by Shearsman Books, is a selected volume rooted in Italy. De Marchi’s Reports after the Fire, translated by Peter Robinson, sounds like poetry written in the wake of damage, when the flame has passed but the work of looking remains. Reports imply evidence, testimony, sequence, perhaps even restraint. Fire implies destruction, purification, panic, and heat. As a selected volume of Italian poetry, the book offers a shaped encounter with aftermath. I would read it for disciplined attention: what the eye records once the dramatic event is over.
- Publisher
- Shearsman Books
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy