Songs of the island by Ada Negri and translated by Maria A. Costantini

This is poetry from Italy.

Songs of the island by Ada Negri translated by Maria A. Costantini is published by Italica Press. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781599101668E12.

Songs of the island, translated from the Italian by Maria A. Costantini, brings Ada Negri’s Italian-language work into English through Italica Press. Published in 2010, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Negri’s title gives the poems an islanded music, attentive to place, distance, solitude, and the pressure of song. The pleasure of a book like this is the permission it gives to move slowly. A reader does not have to master every reference to feel the work at hand. Sometimes the task is simply to notice how a sentence leans, how an image opens, how a voice from Italy changes the room around English.

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.

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