The world saved by kids by Elsa Morante and translated by Cristina Viti

This is poetry from Italy.

The world saved by kids by Elsa Morante translated by Cristina Viti is published by Seagull Books. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780857423795E12.

The world saved by kids, by Elsa Morante and translated by Cristina Viti, brings one of Italy’s great twentieth-century literary imaginations into a visionary, unruly poetic mode. Morante is best known as a novelist, but this title has the force of a manifesto, fairy tale, and desperate wish at once. Children here are not sentimental decoration. They suggest innocence, revolt, possibility, and a judgment on adult catastrophe. Viti’s translation gives English readers access to the poem’s strange mixture of play and seriousness. I would read The world saved by kids for its audacity. The title sounds impossible, which is exactly why poetry can hold it. A poem can let hope appear without pretending the world has earned it.

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