The Selected Poetry of Emilio Villa by Emilio Villa and translated by Dominic Siracusa

This is poetry from Italy.

The Selected Poetry of Emilio Villa by Emilio Villa translated by Dominic Siracusa is published by Contra Mundum Press. This is a Selected originally written in Italian. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781940625058E12.

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.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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