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The guest in the wood
Elisa Biagini
Translated from Italian by Eugene Ostashevsky, Sarah Stickney Diana Thow
The guest in the wood, by Elisa Biagini and translated by Eugene Ostashevsky, Sarah Stickney Diana Thow from Italian, brings Italian-language poetry from Italy into English through woodland presence, hospitality, and Elisa Biagini's poems of guesthood, body, and nonhuman attention. 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 wood, guest, animal, and the uneasy welcome between human and more-than-human worlds, 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 guest in the wood belongs in the translated poetry library because it brings contemporary Italian ecological and feminist lyric into the library.
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Chelsea Editions
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9780988478763