Simultaneities & Lyric Chemisms by Ardengo Soffici and translated by Olivia E. Sears

This is poetry from Italy.

Simultaneities & Lyric Chemisms by Ardengo Soffici translated by Olivia E. Sears is published by World Poetry Books. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2022.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781954218055E12.

Simultaneities & Lyric Chemisms, translated from the Italian by Olivia E. Sears, brings Ardengo Soffici’s Italian-language work into English through World Poetry Books. Published in 2022, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Soffici’s title carries the electricity of Italian futurism and avant-garde experiment, where perception, chemistry, speed, and lyric meet. I would not read this as a puzzle with a hidden answer. Read it for pressure, for texture, for the place where a line suddenly becomes stranger than its apparent subject. The book matters because it keeps the translated poem alive as encounter, not summary, and because Italy enters the shelf through music rather than report.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.