Book record
Shadow
Victoria Surliuga
Translated from Italian by Alessandro Carrera, Giorgio Mobili
Shadow, by Victoria Surliuga and translated by Alessandro Carrera and Giorgio Mobili, takes one of poetry’s oldest images and lets it remain unsettled. A shadow can be memory, double, danger, shelter, history, or the visible proof that light exists somewhere nearby. Surliuga’s Italian poetry, brought into English through a collaborative translation, seems to invite a reader interested in identity, art, and the traces things cast beyond themselves. I would read Shadow for its quiet ambiguity. The title is simple, but not thin. It gives the poems room to move between psychological, visual, and emotional registers without declaring one dominant meaning. Some books are best approached by following what falls beside the object rather than the object itself.
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Xenos Books
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9781879378957