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Songs of the island
Ada Negri
Translated from Italian by Maria A. Costantini
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.
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Italica Press
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9781599101668