Book record
The living theatre
Bianca Tarozzi
Translated from Italian by Alan Williamson, Jeanne Foster
The living theatre, by Bianca Tarozzi and translated by Alan Williamson and Jeanne Foster, frames life as performance without making that performance feel false. Tarozzi’s Italian poetry has a cultivated intelligence, and the title suggests a world in which the self, memory, and society continually appear onstage. BOA Editions gives the book a literary seriousness, while the translators’ collaboration helps carry its dramatic poise into English. I would read The living theatre for its attention to role and presence: who speaks, who watches, what scene we have entered without knowing it. The theater here need not be grand. It may be domestic, historical, bodily, or private. Poetry becomes a way to notice that we are always already performing, even in our solitude.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- BOA Editions, Ltd.
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9781942683513