The living theatre by Bianca Tarozzi and translated by Alan Williamson, Jeanne Foster

This is poetry from Italy.

The living theatre by Bianca Tarozzi translated by Alan Williamson, Jeanne Foster is published by BOA Editions, Ltd.. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781942683513E12.

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.

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