Thalia by Giuseppe Talia and translated by Nehemiah Brown

This is poetry from Italy.

Thalia by Giuseppe Talia translated by Nehemiah Brown is published by Xenos Books / Chelsea Editions. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78187937894E12.

Thalia, by Giuseppe Talia and translated by Nehemiah Brown, carries a title that echoes both the author’s name and the classical muse of comedy and pastoral poetry. That doubling gives the book an interesting self-consciousness from the start. Talia’s Italian poetry, brought into English by Brown, seems to invite a reader interested in lyric identity, play, and the old relationship between poem and performance. I would read Thalia with attention to tonal shift: where the comic enters, where pastoral calm is disturbed, where the name becomes a stage. The title suggests that poetry is not only confession but invocation. Sometimes a book calls on a muse in order to ask what kind of voice the present can still sustain.

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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