Siren’s song by Rinaldo Caddeo and translated by Adria Bernardi

This is poetry from Italy.

Siren’s song by Rinaldo Caddeo translated by Adria Bernardi is published by Chelsea Editions. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780982384916E12.

Siren’s song, by Rinaldo Caddeo and translated by Adria Bernardi, enters English under the sign of dangerous music. The siren is an old figure of desire, shipwreck, seduction, and fatal listening, and Italian poetry has a long intimacy with song as both form and temptation. Bernardi’s translation gives English readers access to a contemporary handling of that mythic resonance. I would read Siren’s song for the tension between beauty and risk. A song that calls to us may not mean us well; a poem that pleases the ear may also be pulling us toward rocks. That is part of lyric’s danger and part of its force. The book’s title understands that listening is never entirely innocent.

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