Book record
The Selected Poetry of Emilio Villa
Emilio Villa
Translated from Italian by Dominic Siracusa
The Selected Poetry of Emilio Villa, by Emilio Villa and translated by Dominic Siracusa from Italian, brings Italian-language poetry from Italy into English through Emilio Villa's selected poetry, avant-garde restlessness, and Italian modernism at its more unstable edge. Because it is a selected volume, the book also has a curatorial task: to make one poet's range feel available without pretending to exhaust it. I would read it for selection, experiment, language, and the sense that poetry can break its own tools to keep speaking, 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 Selected Poetry of Emilio Villa belongs in the translated poetry library because it adds a formally risky Italian voice to the translated shelf.
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Contra Mundum Press
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- ISBN
- 9781940625058