Yellow Fax and Other Poems by Mariano Baino and translated by Gianluca Rizzo

This is poetry from Italy.

Yellow Fax and Other Poems by Mariano Baino translated by Gianluca Rizzo is published by Agincourt Press. This is a Book originally written in Italian. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781946328212E12.

Yellow Fax and Other Poems, by Mariano Baino and translated by Gianluca Rizzo, sounds like a book wired to obsolete technology, color, speed, and interruption. Baino is associated with Italian experimental and neo-avant-garde writing, and the title’s “fax” gives the poems a wonderfully dated immediacy: transmission, noise, copy, distortion, arrival through a machine. Rizzo’s translation brings that experimental charge into English. I would read Yellow Fax for its attention to language as signal rather than smooth confession. The yellow matters too. It stains the message with color, warning, brightness, maybe decay. Some poems arrive like clean letters. Others arrive as warped transmissions from a system you did not know was still running.

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