Book record
The book of Mara
Ada Negri
Translated from Italian by Maria A
The book of Mara, by Ada Negri and translated by Maria A from Italian, brings Italian-language poetry from Italy into English through Mara, love, and Ada Negri's lyric relation to feminine address and emotional extremity. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for Mara, love, longing, and the old-fashioned force of passion taken seriously, not as a fixed lesson about Italy. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. The book of Mara belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives the Italian shelf a historical lyric of intimacy, desire, and personal myth.
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Italica Press
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9781599101712