Voice of a virtuosa and courtesan by Margherita Costa and translated by Joan E. Borrelli

This is poetry from Italy.

Voice of a virtuosa and courtesan by Margherita Costa translated by Joan E. Borrelli is published by Bordighera Press. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781599540931E12.

Voice of a virtuosa and courtesan, translated from the Italian by Joan E. Borrelli, brings Margherita Costa’s Italian-language work into English through Bordighera Press. Published in 2015, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Costa’s title foregrounds performance, gender, artifice, and social power, reminding readers how old the politics of voice really are. A useful way into the book is to listen for what the translation makes possible: not a perfect replacement of the original, but a new body of sound. The poems carry Italy into English without becoming a cultural brochure. They ask for attention, and they reward the reader who lets uncertainty remain useful.

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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.