Book record
The Plant of Dreaming
Elisa Biagini
Translated from Italian by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
The Plant of Dreaming, by Elisa Biagini and translated by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, has a title that grows quietly in the mind. Biagini’s Italian poetry often attends to body, object, domestic space, and the strange living textures of perception. A plant of dreaming suggests rootedness and transformation at once: something unconscious, green, patient, and alive. Wilde-Menozzi’s translation gives English readers access to a voice that seems interested in how the smallest things hold psychic weather. I would read this book for its vegetal intelligence, the way dream is not treated as escape but as growth from within the real. The poem becomes a kind of houseplant for the imagination: modest at first glance, then suddenly necessary to the room.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Xenos Books / Chelsea Editions
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9781879378964