Terminal Events by Alfredo de Palchi and translated by John Taylor

This is poetry from Italy.

Terminal Events by Alfredo de Palchi translated by John Taylor is published by Xenos Books. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2020.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78187937865E12.

Terminal Events, translated from the Italian by John Taylor, brings Alfredo de Palchi’s Italian-language work into English through Xenos Books. Published in 2020, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. De Palchi’s title has the severity of late reckoning, where event, end, body, and language draw close together. What I want from a translated poetry library is not only coverage, but temperament: the chance to meet a mind arranging the world differently. This volume does that work. It gives the reader enough ground to enter, then enough strangeness to keep the encounter from becoming merely informational.

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.