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The Girl Carla and Other Poems
Elio Pagliarani
Translated from Italian by Patrick Rumble
The Girl Carla and Other Poems, by Elio Pagliarani and translated by Patrick Rumble from Italian, brings Italian-language poetry from Italy into English through Carla, industrial modernity, and Elio Pagliarani's documentary-poetic attention to postwar Italian life. 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 Carla, work, city, and the social pressure of a young woman's life inside modern systems, 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 Girl Carla and Other Poems belongs in the translated poetry library because it adds an important Italian neo-avant-garde voice of work, class, and documentary form.
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Agincourt Press
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9780981633022