The Plant of Dreaming by Elisa Biagini and translated by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

This is poetry from Italy.

The Plant of Dreaming by Elisa Biagini translated by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi is published by Xenos Books / Chelsea Editions. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781879378964E12.

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.

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